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- By: Nancy Patricia Manjarrés Moncada
- Student, IX Semester of the Psychology Program at Universidad del Norte
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- Today I take the floor and I hope you let me judge.
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- Just a few days ago, I read a newspaper article about my beloved town, Barrancabermeja
and I did not finish reading it because the story its was about is inside me; I am a part
of it because I have lived that story, I have felt it, I have cried and I am still crying
for it, as I do through these words.
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- This is not a psychological paper, it is one of feelings. It is not written by a
psychologist but by me, Nancvy Patricia Manjarres Moncada, a person who feels, lives,
cries and does many other things for this country which is bleeding and to which we let
bleed. I also do that for this life that we are loosing because all of us are making our
own business when this should be the outside reality that we want to hide.
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- I do not attempt to obtain anything but to relieve the anger I feel against you and me,
against all of us, because I do not know what is happening to us, because the life passes
along us and we do not realise it, because we permit that injustices were committed and,
though we claim that it is our concern, we do not do anything for stopping them. We lack
of Revolution, but one of the kind of Lennon and McCartney’s revolution or of
that we feel in our hearts. We lack consciousness, action, interest, creativity, love.
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- I do not want to make part of that immense group of aggressive, traumatised, resentful
and depressed young people, although I am inside the statistics because, in one way or
another, I am another daughter of war, as many more people are. But I want to be emphatic:
This fact does not make me violent since living in war is not an excuse for becoming
aggressive or indifferent. On the contrary, we are tired, I AM!, I feel tired because of
all this rubbish thing, all this lie which have been created for us: this beautiful dream
of the university and professional life; a fantastic world in which nothing is happening.
I feel myself just as living in the universe riding on a winged horse.
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- What can we do? I have no answer. I do not know. But I can
tell you that I do feel bad if you still are there, sat and doing nothing but watching
this screen.
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Marzo /99