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Mengzi 729

“My father died in the war and when I wanted to join the military myself and revenge him, I wasn’t accepted because of my eye. I have lost it since I was a kid. Apart from that I lost my first wife and my own son together with my land.”

“My son always begged me for money and one day I decided to sell all of the farm land we had in order to help him out, but soon afterwards he disappeared with all the money. He never cared to come back and take care of me as he promised. I have no idea where he is now but I suspect it’s his wife behind all of this.”

“Since I was left with no money and no farm I had it really hard just to survive, since I couldn’t grow any food anymore. Luckily I have found a woman who took me in and to whom I married now.”

“Anyway, tell the people that the life might be hard sometimes, but no one should ever give up! Living is good! … Being able to live here in fact is amazing… be always positive!”

I am sorry, you are crying.

“No,no my friend, it’s just allergy.”
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"我的父亲在战争中去世，当我希望加入军队为我父亲报仇时，却因为眼睛的疾病被拒绝了。小时候我的一只眼睛失明了。除此之外，之后我的第一任妻子去世，我的儿子离开了我。后来，我离开了故乡。”

“我的儿子常常问我要钱，有一天我决定卖掉所有的农田土地来帮他。但不久以后，他就带着钱消失了。他没有像他曾经保证的那样回来照顾我...我也根本没有他的音讯。我猜想也许是他的妻子在背后策划着这一切。”

“我的儿子丢下我后，我身无分文，也无法通过耕种土地来养活自己，生活变得很艰难。幸运地是我遇到了一个愿意接纳我的女人，后来我们结婚了。”

“我希望你告诉人们，生活不如意之事十之八九，但千万不要放弃！活着是一件很幸福的事！...能够在这世上经历这一生已经是奇迹了...我们应该笑着面对一切！”

看到你为此哭泣我很难过！

“不，你不必觉得难过，我的朋友，只是我的眼睛过敏了。”
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- met him in ‪#‎Mengzi‬, ‪#‎Yunnan‬ [ ‪#‎CHINA‬ ]

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Taken in: 中國 / 云南省 / 蒙自 (show map)

Taken on: February 3, 2016

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Camera: Canon EOS 6D, f/2.8, 0.017 sec (1/60) sec (more info) (hide info)

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