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The happiness without ID (Reposted)


It's difficult for me to chose a title for this picture taken while I was trekking by the elementary school of Lao Chai Tribe, some 15 km away from Sa Pa Town. As you see: the school students were having fun during their recess. These children belong to H’mong minority tribes who don’t have an ID or birth certificate. Their lives are cemented to farm, to forest, to rice or timber. They transport on their own feet and live in the darkness. Coming to their houses, you would conclude they are lack of basic condition of human life. Only a small percentage of them who has the opportunity to sit in a classroom or to ride a vehicle. Radio, TV, microwave, oven, newspaper, cellular phone, doctor, hospital or theater are something as abstract as satellite or laser guided weapons to them…

Having less necessity, they don’t have to race toward convenience and luxury as in an industrial and civilized world. They don’t worry about bills, debts, housing, car and insurance. Maybe the absence of such anxieties gives them longer life, and happier laughs. Maybe the secret and philosophy of a happy life has been destroyed by ourselves.

Looking at them, I just don’t know what makes them that much happy — The happiness without ID.


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Whether they are to be sorry or to be admired, let them having fun! Please share with them, the joy from simple life.





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Recently, my computer was down and photo has been processed over a borrowed one that I failed to judge the proper contrast and colors' brightness. Also, my eye-disease has fooled me with a bad vision.

This repost is my way to sincerely tell you how I yield to reason once you helped me to detect my errors or weakness. By eliminating or destroying the proud, I hope I would be better. Thanks.

Thanh


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