the little guy

I have just come back from a rather nice hike to the higher base of the
waterfall that i visited the other day. it was nice and early,
refreshing like a cup of tea and there wasn't a soul in site.
I walked past a new school being built by local people for there children!
Yes I think this is what made me think once again about the sense of community these
people have. Out here for the local who isnt milking the toursit this is
a hard back breaking existence with the reward of life and a short respite from more
work that will continue untill death. Yet, these folk seem to be able to rise above it.

I am a rich tourist-For years I ahev called myslef the walking dollar
as in effect that is what we are. We bring some 'hope' and at the same time we
bring inevitable distruction greed and false pretense in that our fast food
fast life fast no spce existence will bring us somehow closer to being complete.
Much of what we have and give to the world appeals to the simple urge we have to eat
consume and maintain before the next drought, famine etc... that need has been hijacked by
greed heads that run or is it ruin our beautiful planet. It's not easy here as I moan about my 18hrs across the passes or that fact that I have a back seat on a bus, but when I look out at the masses that work in absolute squalor with no silly pension plan car or mortgage I see that the simple life is in many ways much better. When we have achieved food warmth and shelter and safety for our family we often become indulgent with the surplus that we generate leading to what we have now. I am rambling but due to my own experiences I really do empathise with what the 'common man' i.e. 99.999999% of the planet have.

in your day try and think of those half naked folk who toil on the worlds highest passes
for 10p an hour putting down asphelt manually in all weathers.


i have changed


it is the only constant


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