NIGHT LIGHTS... When there are none or perhaps are rather cold if any,
uninviting, an extinguished beacon in the night, showing the opposite way to home...
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Until someone cares...you are nobody.
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Not necessarily true but
too often, ultimately, this is how it is.
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Show me your favourite spots said Phil*...
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Ehm, we really did not have enough time to go to most of my favourite places
there were parking problems in most places i wished to go BUT
we finally found (a small miracle) the place i had gone years ago for which i had
forgotten how to go back. That was a nice and sad surprise.
A place filled with appearance of emptyness while, at the same time,
filled with some aspects of human tragedy,
stories of a lifetime and collision of emotions.
Like screams in the dark where very few ears pay attention, camouflaged
by the city noises of indifference.


A place where hope and dreams are replaced by the quest of the next meal
and an impression of safety while falling asleep out of exhaustion or
passing out on drugs...
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A taste of a parallel world prisoner of their reality.
Living without an address... There is almost no way out.
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note: It took a while for me to put up this gallery because...i had a hard time
dealing with that reality that afflict other people,
even now, as i am writing this, i can't believe that in this day and age
NOTHING has changed and perhaps, nothing "will ever" change "enough" to
make a difference in the lives of too many people.
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We are not brothers...no matter what some good intended people want to say,
out of good intention or sincerely.
This big family on this small planet is not a real one
when i see stuff like this and that is not even the tip of the iceberg.
WE DO NOT CARE "enough" to make an ultimate difference and that is the real tragedy.
Yes, i still know how to smile, i still know how to gaze at the stars,
i still am at the mercy of my five senses and because of them i can appreciate
LIFE but the disaster of the reality in the life of people we choose to not see
does not change.
Too many people are invisible because of our indifference
and that is that.

For many of us, the "choices" we have are lightyears away
from the reality of successful people as defined in our modern societies.
If someone is not even able to be on the first step of the Maslow scale,
the "self realization" of dreams through challenges is a whole different ball game...
It remains somewhat possible but without a helping hand, that will make a true difference,
in lots of cases, forget it. The exception will make it and it is not just a question of
believing in yourself...

We are what we eat, i recently heard.
I totally agree with that statement but...
What if there is no food?

Another statement that i agree with:
People change people, but then again...You have to be on the
path of those people...and we have to be visible to be seen.
If those same people do not even see You, how will they take
time to influence your life?

I don't know too many people who can climb the Everest entirely all by themselves.
Ask the Sherpas, those who we never hear about...

"Get real and dare to reach", easier said than done for many,
if we just ignore the reality of their unfair circumstances.
It is a question of making visible the invisible...

We need dreams, challenges and goals but again, how can you dream,
take the next challenge and reach your goal
if you can't afford to just eat 3 times a day every day?

Quality of life for everyone? That is the real society challenge...

Where there is a will there is a way but still, that helping hand
is the one that will make you make it or break it.

C'est ça qui est ça comme dirait un de mes amis
Et mettons fin aux accomodements déraisonnables.
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* Phil: https://pbase.com/pnd1
A wonderful human being from Phoenix Arizona, with whom i had the honour
of spending one too short day...

Philip, for nearly 40 years, has been teaching photographic communication
as well as pursuing his passion for travel photography.
He is director of The Douglis Visual Workshops in Phoenix, Arizona,
and has been training organizational photojournalists
and photo-editors in visual literacy since 1971.

Was i lucky or was i lucky? ;)))

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