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Leonardo AI

Welcome my frequent readers and new visitors to this blog.

The subject of this occasion is "Bring to Life," and it refers to what we would bring back to this era if we had the opportunity—whether it be an animal, a person, a product, or a way of life.

This is a difficult decision.

I have been reading several publications from participants in the community, and they have had quite interesting choices.

Most of them bring back a way of life, while some bring coins because the way they received the benefits of purchases in past years gave them a lot more money.

For a moment, I come to think that it would be a good idea to have the value of what was the Venezuelan bolívar previously, to be able to buy a number of things and meet a number of needs that are required today—not only for me but for a lot of people.

I think that would really make a difference in quality of life. But I decided that I'm not going to talk to you about that.

I'm going to talk to you about a way of life.

If there is a time that I long for, it is the 80s. Life in those years was different. I remember that during those years, I was in my high school time, attending what was the third year of high school, and I was in a Catholic priesthood school, the School Santo Tomás de Aquino.

I remember with a lot of affection how I always went to the canteen to enjoy my croissant with ham and cheese that had yellow cheese—delicious, melted with ham—and the croissant had a very exquisite flavor.

I clearly remember that the money they gave me from the canteen was enough to buy one or two croissants and a juice, and I could enjoy them quietly at recess time.

Leonardo AI

I also long for those times because I remember how spacious the school was.

I was in a school with a building that was four or five floors and had a quite large area. Next to it was the church where the priests held mass, and several of those priests taught us.

I remember that time because it was very evident the treatment that each of the priests gave us—it was quite interesting because they taught us and educated us according to the tradition of the Dominican fathers, and they were traditions that were culturally very interesting.

I remember above all that in those years, I was very attached to the learning of computer science.

Computing caught my attention a lot—computers and the Atari 2600, which was in vogue in those years, had only recently come out in the time of the 80s.

Also in vogue were the minitecas, the discotheques, those ambulances discos that became very famous here in Caracas.

I long for those times because I remember precisely how you exchanged music tapes—the cassettes of music from brands like TDK—with the recordings of the fashionable minitecas.

I remember how on many occasions, I exchanged cassettes of a miniteca that was called Sandy Lane for cassettes of another that was called Betelgeuse, which were the ones that dominated here and were fashionable at the time.

The interesting thing is that these exchanges were original cassettes by the DJs who recorded the music in those minitecas, and they came with the card of the miniteca—something very exclusive—to have the card with the stickers and the colored cassette with the case and everything of the miniteca was something that was really a privilege and very particular of the time.

That is, one lived that time of the pixel art of the Atari 2600 games that were in fashion—Asteroid, Missile Command, and E.T. the Alien was in fashion, both the video game and the movie in those years.

Leonardo AI

It was a really beautiful time, marked at a local level where I live for some parties they did in clubs that were exclusive.

In this case, I remember and bring to light a party that was made in the Caracas Hebraic Club, which is in a place called Los Chorros.

I remember that there was a band of motorized individuals called the Gladiators at that time—people who were characterized by being bodybuilders and fighters, very strong men, a group of men on motorcycles who lifted weights.

They were characterized because they were the security in these events of these minitecas.

I remember that in the Hebraic Club, they were there, and they stopped—they avoided a fight. I still have recorded in my mind the scene where all of them got into a great brawl and made fly one of the handrails of the wooden stairs, which were very thick.

With a single blow, one of these Gladiators, these bodybuilders, left almost half of a ladder broken.

These were very exciting times, and even though it seems something dangerous, it was something very much of the time to participate in these parties and these minitecas.

So I would bring back those times because I am sure that would really change the world—to experience that emotion of the Atari 2600 and to participate in these parties is something that is a unique feeling, one that I have not seen again and currently do not enjoy because the parties now are in a completely different way.

They do not have that pixelated air and the music of the minitecas that they had previously.

It is something very beautiful, very particular, that I would be delighted to bring back to life, and I am sure that many people of my generation and from that time would enjoy it 100%.

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