Smiling Beggar

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Smiling Beggar
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Copyright: kevin o'sheehan (kevinos) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 834 W: 160 N: 1170] (4824)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-05-05
Categories: Daily Life
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/125 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-05-08 11:17
Viewed: 1759
Points: 4
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This little boy is a beggar in my street (Silom Road). He’s there most days. His legs and arms are deformed but, that’s not one remember about him. It’s his lovely smile.
It’s a hard life being a street beggar but this boy smiles a lot. I suspect, however, that he is in the hands of a begging gang because, when I speak to him, I discover that he speaks only Cambodian. Gangs traffic children from Cambodia and put them to beg on the streets of Bangkok. The children, in the hands of the gangs, get to keep very little of the money they collect. Usually, however, such children are filthy and ill cared for, and this is clearly not the so in his case because he is always clean and well dressed. People can be deformed but lovely; destitute but smiling. He makes me question my own values.
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bonjour, en regardant attentivement je ne vois pas de sourire. Simplement un appel aux passants, appel à verser une obole. cordialement Niglo.

thank you, kevin, and your note as well (maybe title will turn people away, I dunno?). Your last sentence is so much about what travels are or should be about. And keep on questionning oneself back home.
I may misspeak, but I am afraid this is another shot whose acknowledging responses to it is affected by who posts it. Unfair. So far, no one, I really hope i am wrong, but here with you, Kevin!

Birth defects from chemicals in the soil and water? So sad his body, so shy his smile. Life can make you sad..... or you can enjoy what you have, small treasures, small joys.

I wish I had something new to add, but I just wanted tell you ...yes... we can enjoy what we have.
But ...he`s child! He should play football. The reality is sad.

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