as far as "spirituality"... only the most blessed among us can ever let go of our worldly ideas/concepts/wants/desires/material possesions to ever come any where close to that childs spiritual nearness of that moment... spirit is not always as we would deem it to be... "unconditional love is unconditional"...

as far as "self awareness"... the only awareness that poor child would be aware of would be the pain of hunger in it's gut...

but the thing i find most hard to accept about the picture is the person behind the camera... the photographer... what kind of heartless... cold blooded animal could take the time to even think of snapping a photo when another suffering human being/a child is in such dire need of help...

i would venture to say that it must have dawned on him afterwards... deep down within us... we all have to answer for our actions...

my question is this... what kind of world do we live in that produces such heartless... thoughtless... inconsiderate... cruel... greedy beast... what happens to make us so...??? how do we become so horribly twisted...??? why after all the worldly atrocities that we have experienced must it continue...??? when will it ever end...??? will it ever end...???

perhaps the best thing you and i can do is ask questions... "ask... and it shall be given unto you"... perhaps if our questions are sincere enough... our motives pure enough... that we might ask these questions in the form of prayer... will we receive the answers we seek...