when will this end???

i got an email from a friend, an email showing pictures. pictures of extremely thin and sick children, suffering from starvation, malnutrition..famine. i cant explain the feelings that swept over me when i saw the pictures, as with other...pictures that i've seen before. (see! i couldnt even get a perfect adjective to describe the pictures!!)












this picture caught my attention; see the child, how he/she eats bits of leftover? can you just imagine yourself in his/her shoes?? Ya Allah.....




now, this picture is REALLY shocking! you realize what this child is doing?? i know, i know, it's damn disgusting.. but i believe he cant help it..he's desperate.."desperate times call for desperate measures"..




this is as shocking as the above picture...masya Allah~, here i, we, have fresh water running out of the tap easily, to fill our needs..fresh water, which we often take for granted. n this picture openly proves that you shouldn't complain if you dont have ENOUGH fresh water, coz there are places where there is NO fresh water, let alone CLEAN WATER, or drinkable! at least this child wants to 'clean' himself - bathe, even though the liquid used is dirty n foul-smelling, n comes from a disgusting source..unlike some of us, who sometimes dont even think of bathing because they're too lazy or too busy, or simply cheapskates who call themselves "water-savers"..




the last picture here is very popular..im quite amazed that such picture could spark the world's interest and win the photographer a prestigious prize..as one would say," a picture is worth a thousand words."

click on the picture to read the message below it.

i searched up "kevin carter" to know more about his pictures. it was quite a read. click here to find out. at the end of the page, there's another website where you can read long stories, news headlines and letters about the photographer's death. quite tragic to me..i'd say that photojournalism, especially in war-stricken and poverty-stricken areas, can really take its toll on people, you get what i mean??


"I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen... The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist."