A young Cuban woman, Karla Martín, shared a video on TikTok in which she mentioned some things that she found impossible in Cuba and now in the United States she sees as normal.
Karla (@karlybeautyservices on the network) first referred to the fact of driving a car, pointing out that on the island she didn't even ride a bike because she would fall off.
"I came to think, in my mind, that maybe I didn't have the ability to handle anything... I never even thought I would have to drive a car. In Cuba, most people who have a car are men and the women who drove had, I don't know, the superpower of balance. Then I came to the United States and realized that driving was for everyone," she confessed in that sense.
"Today, I already have my second car because I crashed the first one while learning to drive, and in fact, nowadays I have even driven a boat," she celebrated.
Another thing he mentioned is starting his own business. "I know that only regular Cubans will be able to understand this... to me, this was not something I couldn't do because starting your own business was something, a talent you were born with... In Cuba, starting a business or creating a company is only reserved for super powerful people with superpowers. I arrived here and realized that entrepreneurship was especially reserved for those who had the will to do it."
He also spoke about what it means to be able to choose what to eat: "If you had asked me three years ago, I would have told you that I never went hungry in Cuba, but over the years I have realized that maybe for me to never lack a meal, someone else may have had to go without... In Cuba, eating whatever you fancy, even with money, was unreal to me. I arrived here and realized that people can choose what they want to eat, whether healthy or not for their health. Something as simple as that blew my mind," he said.
The comments were not long in coming: "I have been in this beautiful country for years and I have never driven. And I ask God to give me strength so that I can overcome my fear of driving"; "That's happening to me, I feel like I am putting obstacles on myself to learn how to drive, I think I am not capable"; "Exactly as you describe it, believe me, the same thing happened to me"; "I am on my third car and I learned to drive at 49," they said.
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