This is a typical setting in many African urban settlements. The children casually hang around this water hole (which I was told is atleast 20 feet deep). Does living in such environments make them risk-takers? wiser? more resilient to life's challenges? ....your thoughts?
Great marilyne! this is the reality, now this children will learn the life challenges earlier in their lives. I believe they will get light on how to overcome the environmental living challenges when they grow up safely.
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ReplyDeleteAs regards your question, which I found more strange than the pictures, these children are not risk takers, but the absurd representation of the absurd man trying to make meaning in this meaningless cosmos. The cold indifferent world has neither compassion nor kindness.
It is even quite more disturbing to imagine the health risk this open pool of water just in the vicinity of residential places poses to them: the foul smell, the mosquitoes and other pests breeding and the danger of one falling in. And our common saying ajali haikingiki (an accident can not be prevented) still holds for learned people?
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