This is the last month of the year. December is a month full of music, joy, food and many colors. Christmas and the arrival of the new year create a festive atmosphere in almost every corner of the world. However, surely if we make an inventory of the things that have happened in this 2019, many people will think that there is more negative balance than positive; but they will prefer, to maintain the festive and hopeful spirit not to clash with the time and not be accused of El Grinch of the group. The idea, apparently, is fraternity and love; sadness and unlove is uncomfortable, annoying.

In recent years the fashion of a positive current has prevailed in which we must all remain happy and with a smile not only to ward off adversity but also to face it. It seems that maintaining a good and optimistic attitude is the cure for all the world's ills: from curing diseases, preventing hair loss and the appearance of wrinkles, to reaching longevity and health. Advertising states that by being happier and keeping sadness away, we will become more sociable, friendly beings with whom everyone will want to share, because it seems that sadness is trouble, especially if someone else is sad.

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I think extremes can be dangerous. While it is true that I am a person who tries to see the positive side of things, I think that you can not control or hide emotions, especially if it is done to look good with the environment, ie at the mercy of our own mental health, our spiritual peace, we can not hide emotions such as sadness, anger, helplessness, hopelessness. Negative emotions are also part of us and if you try to shut them up so that they don't come out, at some point they will be able to come out before the less suitable people and perhaps in unimaginable proportions. Emotions are like repressed water: if you don't let it out, it can cause a flood, a tragedy.

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There is a story by the Venezuelan writer Carlos Villarino entitled Represa that talks about how a woman who had never fought with her husband and after having endured years of infidelity, disloyalty, mistreatment, one day decides to leave and the husband, when he goes to look for her to tell him why he left her, finds this vision:

Her face was in her hands. Gerardo insisted that he calm down, but his cry was an explosion in the middle of the cafeteria.
I just want to know how long you've been unhappy, woman? Since when have you kept those tears?
The woman lifted up her face and said, confident, tired, empty:
Do you remember when we met, Gerardo?
The man nodded, looking at her from the front.
Well, since that day.

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In these brief lines we see how one cannot keep the pain for so long and how one cannot pretend to be well also for a prolonged time. Sooner or later, that feeling will come out. If something sad or unpleasant has happened to us, it is normal that we are afflicted and suffer. Nothing happens with it. This does not mean that we should remain in pain and suffering. What it means is that we must allow ourselves to cry and free ourselves from that negative emotion in order to move forward.

Even though we are in December, there will surely be people in our environment who will be particularly nostalgic, heartbroken and soulful, either because they are so by nature, because they hate this time of brightness, or simply because they have had a terrible year.

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In Venezuela, for example, we don't have much to celebrate this year. Thousands of families will surely not be able to make the traditional dinner, they will not be able to decorate beautiful trees, they will not be able to buy new clothes and many of the family members will wish each other a happy new year through a video call or a long distance call. In short, regardless of the mood or discouragement we may have at the moment, the important thing to remember is that we are not robots and we don't have to be well all the time. It's worth crying, breaking down and being weak. Let's leave superheroes for comics and happy endings for soap operas.

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