Social Necrosis

By definition Necrosis refers to the premature death of cells and living tissue, I don't know if the term "Social Necrosis" exist, but today I noticed that the new Yellow Pages were home, at first I didn't noticed anything wrong with it, I haven't used it for a long time, and didn't took the time to watch it close.

 Later today I grabbed it to move it from a table and noticed that it was rather light, it was a surprise that it was like 1/2 the size of what I remember.

This is how I remember I held past books

 When I noted this I asked my sister if she noticed it and asked me if I had checked it, more specifically she told me to check the coupons section, we never use these coupons, we always forget about them, but she insisted on that.
Well, I checked the coupon section and found this.

I can't really understand what are this coupons for, they make no sense

It was just 1 page filled with coupons that didn't make sense, or at least I wasn't able to understand them, and also 2 coupons for Harman Hall, I suppose that they are so you can learn another language and get the hell out of here.

What I want to say with all of this, is that when I noticed the size of the yellow pages is that many business have closed either because they went out of business or because of extortions, for the last years I suppose that all of us have heard and even seen that many business are no longer there, but, at least in my case, I never thought of the size of the problem because in my family there have not been problems of that kind, just once, one intent of extortion, but my mom, who answered the phone, just ignored it and changed our phone, but nothing more.
I had heard people saying and speculating about how bad was business in Juarez, but it was that, speculation. And many friends from school that had economical problems, or had received threats, and even worse things.

Maybe I am exaggerating things, but it really hit me when I saw that this book was half of what it used to be, I felt like this is the representation of how much has this city suffered economically, and since I am in contact with the health sector because of the courses I have taken and my meetings with the college of psychologists, I know that the mental health of most people in here is going down, but that's another story.