Control Machete, Ladre el Desmadre

A desmadre in Mexico is commonly understood as a chaotic event, although that can be a good thing (like a great party) it is usually bad (riots or traffic). It translates as the lack of mother which come to think of it, it's like a momentary lapse of time when there was no mother and the events were lacking of order or sense.

I didn't feel very much like celebrating. There's a constant nebula of smog that just doesn't clear up and the rumour of cheap gas is still around. The mothers of the Ayotzinapa students, missing people or dead reporters didn't have much to celebrate either and last time I checked, we still have a perverse government that doesn't care of any of these issues. It's a dismother of all sorts.

When I was abroad I used to think how was it that the people back home endured these things? 

You just prevail. You concentrate on the good. You focus on the inequalities of life and seek a precarious mental shelter in what other people less fortunate are lacking of, like free time to spend it with their family because they are working, or live on other states that can't or want to celebrate because they are mourning the sudden and irreparable loss of some family members.

Pictionary drawing for Angel of Independence

So you don't complain. You feel fortunate, you play games and pass the time you have trying to be as happy as you can. You hug (as much as they let you) those moving bodies of the little ones that are constantly changing. You look at the wrinkles of your grandmother and wonder about your own fortitude when you become that age. You bare witness to all the knick-knacks from the relationships evolving / related to you. 

I guess this is how we do it: thinking it could be worse instead of better.