:: Tough Sh*t ::

I came across the above picture cuppla years ago.  But I did not know the story behind the picture until a few months back. 

The picture was taken in 1993 by Kevin Carter while on his way to UN food centre during the Sudan famine.  He stopped and took the picture of a little girl crawling towards the centre (which was reported to be a kilometre away) while she was stalked by a hungry looking vulture.

A year later, in 1994, this picture won a Pulitzer Prize.

During the press conference he was asked “what happened to the child?”
   
He could set his camera for 20 minutes and waited for the vulture to spread it wings, but it did not happen. He left the emaciated girl after he chased the vulture away, and yet he did not help carry the poor girl to the food camp. 

He got depressed of what he had seen over those years, he committed suicide 3 months later.  Died of carbon monoxide poisoning.  Google him out.  His life story is very interesting. 

Maltbie Babcock once said, opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.  Kevin carter has had the opportunity to help her but as scarce as the oxygen, he failed to see it.  

So chickadees,  if opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

p/s:  I'm watching Shutter Island while composing this.