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This is my post for #freewriters 2842 prompt "brag about it" hosted by @mariannewest

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It is not the first time that I have had to see this happen: a person starts to talk and talk and reaches a point where they become annoying because they spend their time showing off what they know, what they have, the things they have done.

I think that to a certain extent it is part of human nature to show off or boast about the things that are achieved, and it is not bad; everyone wants to stand out, especially when it comes to achievements that they have spent a lot of time working for and pursuing, and when they achieve them, it is quite common for the person to want to make it known, to celebrate it.

The bad thing is when people generally have a habit of constantly repeating and showing off and boasting about it, because they enter into rather narcissistic behavior, and that is when it becomes toxic, when it becomes negative.

I live in an environment, in a neighborhood, where people always like to show off about what they don't have. Very recently, about three weeks ago, a neighbor friend of mine told me about someone to whom she provides a service; he goes around boasting that he has many houses and properties in one place and another, and yet he is living in an area that is middle class, verging on poor, which is the area where we live, and obviously the person's lie is revealed the moment they precisely start boasting about having a lot of money.

Both my neighbor and I agree that if a person boasts about all those possessions and all those properties they have, they shouldn't be living in this area, but should be living in an area for people with better economic and financial capabilities.

These things are seen very daily.

A situation that I want to highlight and that is in line with what we are currently experiencing is precisely the case of the United States and the very complicated political situation that Venezuela is experiencing. The United States is showing off all its great military power that it has, displaying all those aircraft carriers and all the naval fleet it has, bringing it to the Caribbean coasts.

And it's not that that is wrong, but it is about the topic we are talking about today, which we were given for today, about showing off regarding that. And in their case, because it is a maneuver that I think is quite justified when it comes to intimidating, through the display of their strength, all the power, all the naval weaponry they have, to achieve the surrender or withdrawal of all these drug traffickers and these people who have caused so much damage to the country for more than 25 years, and we truly pray that they are withdrawn and that they manage to withdraw them, and this will allow us all Venezuelans to be the ones who finally show off that we already have a free, pleasant country and where we can finally manage to have a healthy life, in balance.

And how could we not show off in a future that we live well, like the Venezuela we had before and that we miss so much and that we long for so much, where we had a positive quality of life, where our pantry was full of food and where we could afford a quality of life that allowed us to get a good education, travel, and not show off or boast about what we had in the sense of feeling powerful or millionaires, but simply about having a good quality of life.

And I want those times to return so that I can show off that.

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Español

No es la primera vez que tengo que ver que esto sucede: que una persona comienza a hablar y hablar y llega a un punto en que se vuelve molesta porque pasa mostrando eso de lo que sabe, de lo que tiene, de las cosas que han hecho.

Creo que hasta cierto punto es parte de la naturaleza humana presumir o alardear sobre las cosas que se logran y no es malo; todos quieren destacar, y especialmente cuando se trata de logros por los que se ha pasado mucho tiempo trabajando y persiguiéndolos, y cuando lo consiguen es bastante común que la persona quiera darlo a conocer, celebrarlo.

Lo malo es cuando las personas tienen generalmente como hábito repetir y presumir y alardear todo el tiempo de eso, porque entran en un comportamiento bastante narcisista y es ahí cuando se vuelve tóxico, cuando se vuelve negativo.

Vivo en un ambiente, en un barrio, donde a la gente siempre le gusta presumir sobre lo que no tiene. Hace muy poco, hace como tres semanas, una vecina amiga mía me contó que alguien a quien ella le presta un servicio se pasa presumiendo de que tiene muchas casas y tiene propiedades en un lugar y en otro, y sin embargo está viviendo en una zona que es de clase media tirando a pobre, que es la zona donde vivimos, y obviamente la mentira de la persona se reconoce en el momento en el que precisamente comienza a presumir de que tiene mucho dinero.

Tanto mi vecina como yo coincidimos en que si una persona presume de todas esas posesiones y todas esas propiedades que tiene, no debería estar viviendo en esta zona, sino debería estar viviendo en una zona de personas con mejores capacidades económicas y financieras. Estas cosas se ven muy a diario.

Una situación que quiero destacar y que está en acuerdo con lo que estamos viviendo actualmente es el caso precisamente de Estados Unidos y la situación política tan complicada que está viviendo Venezuela. Estados Unidos está presumiendo de todo su gran poder militar que tiene, mostrando todos esos portaaviones y toda la flota naval que tiene, trayéndola a las costas del Caribe.

Y no es que eso esté mal, pero es sobre el tema del que estamos hablando hoy, que nos dieron para hoy, de presumir sobre eso.

Y en el caso de ellos, porque es una maniobra que creo que es bastante justificada cuando se trata de intimidar, mediante la muestra de su fuerza, de todo el poder, de todo el armamento naval que tienen, para lograr la rendición o el retiro de todos estos narcotraficantes y estas personas que han causado tanto daño al país por más de 25 años, y que realmente rezamos para que se retiren y que logren retirarlos, y esto nos permita a todos los venezolanos ser los que finalmente presumamos de que ya tenemos un país libre, agradable y donde finalmente podamos poder hacer una vida sana, en balance.

Y cómo no presumir en un futuro de que vivimos bien, como la Venezuela que teníamos antes y que extrañamos tanto y que echamos tanto de menos, donde teníamos una calidad de vida positiva, donde teníamos llena de comida nuestra despensa y donde nos podíamos dar una calidad de vida que nos permitía educarnos bien, viajar, y no presumir o alardear de lo que teníamos en el sentido de creernos poderosos o millonarios, sino simplemente de tener una buena calidad de vida.

Y quiero que vuelvan esos tiempos para poder presumir de eso.

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