RE: Day 10 - Advent Calendar 2025, Win prize everyday! 🎄🎁

Aquí tienes una traducción fiel y cuidada al inglés, manteniendo el tono emocional y reflexivo del original:

The year 2025 has been one of resilience, but also very dark and worrying for most of us living in my country. A year of farewells, constant blackouts, worsening internet, scarcity, deprivation, rampant economic inflation, and many curable and preventable diseases that have caused the death of a friend and of many others I do not know, yet I feel that pain as my own—especially for the loss of children. In this difficult situation of survival, I am deeply grateful to my friend and former student, Lucius Rafael Hernández. I am thankful for his trust and for giving me a job that allowed me to improve my economy, feel like a teacher again, and be encouraged to keep creating 🎨. Thanks to him I was able to help my family, support other people, enjoy the internet (stay connected, communicate with him and with my other friends, and also enjoy Ecency) and above all—and most valuable to me—buy medicine and food for my parents to keep them alive during these times of widespread illness in my country. Without his help and work, most likely I would not be writing here, or perhaps not even among the living. I also thank Ecency for the opportunity to grow and share my drawings, and I am always grateful, above all, to God for allowing me to live each day, to have my parents alive, and to have good friends 🙏.