When the dawn breaks, I’ll start my journey with a happy smile and go in search of free life and death like the wind… I don’t know what’s ahead, but hope only to exercise my will, live deliberately and to be free and leave everything else behind.
During my first culture travel, Thailand, I found a total other world as Europe. I found “life-giving” elements and daily happiness in very small things in Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son and Chiang Rai.
Since this days, I write a diary.
“You, who have the most beautiful smiles in the world, live days of gloom, but wish for a brighter future. You who has nothing, why you feel yourself so happy, why you give so much friendship?”
To me their life seemed hopeless. Nevertheless, they were running towards me with smiles and a gives a glass of thee, watching me as a comic stranger, but happy to help me on my way.
The most important thing in life is not how you’re born, but how you live.
But what could I say to their children who don’t get any opportunity to live a life, basically?
I saw the same in Guatemala, Peru, China, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, even in Argentina and Ethiopia. Many encounters I’ve had through my travels in the Far East, Africa and South America…
Pure and innocent children living in the trackless provinces of all this countries…
They are chasing strangers letting out a yell, “one dollar, one dollar please – you buy from me sir”.
Be sure, we can buy candid for these children, but it will ruin their future.
Our cheap sympathy to the children whose values aren’t made, would make them ask somebody else to do just the same, and they would continue living their whole life in the small villages, not getting out into the world.
The children of the world need neither money nor candid. They need an equal opportunity in education, literacy, and the tools to determine their own future. Isn’t drawing attention to their plight our obligation, since we are living in the same world?
But if we show the modern world to the children in this edges of world, which have lived as their parents and grandparents have for countless generations, aren’t we doing them harm? Aren’t we disrupting their lifestyles?
I want to let more people know about this world. We must show our concern for such “world culture”.
The part I can do is to let the world know the purity of these “life-giving”.
Others can offer educational opportunities for these small villages, to this children: buy them books and let them grip pencils.
I also keep inside me the hope that one person can make a difference, however small.
I hope that people, through these pictures, will hear the sound of these “far away countries”, these children’s laughter and witness their warm smiles, this world of “life-giving”…
My goal is to capture the joyful sound of these world, in one of my photographs.
In the end, I hope to bring like-minded people together, and do something...
