The text reads.. 'The photo in the mail is the "Pulitzer Prize" winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine. The picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.
The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat it. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.
Three months later he committed suicide due to depression."
As the world capitalise and globalised with information readily available online, we are only interested in things that will be able to benefit us and not things that concern the others living in conditions that are sub-human standard. Do we even care about this world? Do we even bother about things that are not within our academic program as students, not within our work as adults in future but yet within reach?
Is this all because of our culture? Is it because we are lucky to be borned here? Why do we complain about every little things in life when it is already much much better than millions of people out there?
Food for thought.. We are researching into AIDs vaccine and lets' say we managed to do so.. Will the Africans be able to have access to them when they formed a huge percentage of those infected? I bet no.. The thing that will happen is that once the vaccine is out, the world's moral values will be eroded because people will get vaccined and then be promiscuous in action and what values are there left?
Perhaps this is because I am socialized into having the Asian values and thinking that if this were to happen in my lifetime, I really wonder what will my reaction to it..
Hopefully I won't live to see that day.. Or perhaps my life will end on that very day..
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1st saw dis photo when i was dng a GP assignment in JC.
It was fresh on my mind for the entire week, and i can still rmb it.
When i saw it, the emotions that ran thru were such an irony...
I was thankful and glad for the fact dat im here comfortably in my safe little zone, yet i had to reprimand myself for not being contented with what i have, which is more than everything that little child ever wanted and the most overwhelming feeling of all, the heartache and the helplessness that followed...
I can udstd y the photographer wanted to end his life... We saw the photo, but he saw the actual child - human, but dying, struggling, but failing. How helpless.
But i think dis photo was really a wake-up call, a reminder, a tug back to the sad truth of the world we're in.
And this world is more den "me and all the problems i'm facing"...
Thx for the post nanny..
I saw this photo a long way back too but didn't have a medium to share it hence I decided to share it here.
A lot of things are out there only if we seek to understand and seek to know more about them. But apparently, we are not doing so. The internet is a good place to get info but we are not doing so because we are pre-occupied with every other thing in life.
Perhaps it is the things that I learn in Uni that made me think a lot more especially sociology and politics. **apparently arts modules set me thinking a lot..** hahaha..
And you are correct to say that the world is more than 'you and all the probs that you are facing'.. I'd say that that just by being in Singapore, we are blessed already. =D
actually.. when so many ppl are debating whether the world is degrading culturally and morally because of this picture and what's going on in the "world out there", and how we do not know how lucky we are to be living in comfort.. i would much rather have a life lik theirs.. where all i need to worry is just food and shelter. simple. dont have to worrya bout getting a stpd job, built a stpd family, and pleasing the stpd upper heads..
sry but im sick and tired of all the politicall correct answers and how everyone pretends to care about such controversial issues.
But i think to them, food and shelter are not "simple things"... They mean "Life and Death" to them...
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