My cousin's words made me rethink why I left Venezuela after 3 years here

I was talking to my cousin in Caracas on the phone last night. She said "you think you escaped but you just traded one kind of struggle for another." At first I got defensive but then I sat with it for a few hours. She meant I left because of violence and no food but now I'm in a new country dealing with loneliness and paperwork that never ends. Has anyone else had a family member back home say something that hit you different than you expected?

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finley_bennett281mo ago

Damn. Never thought of it that way before. Kinda changes everything.

taylor_flores1mo ago

Wait @finley_bennett28 did your cousin's words ever stick with you like that? I had a friend from Colombia who moved here and her mom told her "you left the fire but landed in the frying pan" and it messed her up for weeks. She realized both places had their own kind of hard.