Original Art Photography Series by @velimir #229 'Old and Poor'
'Old and Poor'
Nobody wants to be old and nobody wants to be poor. This lady is both. She obviously cannot walk well but still dumpster dives, searching for means of daily survival. This and similar situations usually sadden me. What kind of society are we building if we're not taking care of our old and help them to lead decent lives?
Notice the contrast between what she's doing, the very social reality of the city, and a jolly laughing fake family just above her head. An existing reality and a completely different, pink one, which we are being told to believe over and over again. "Take the loan and be happy" really means: take the loan, buy the shit we tell you to buy, become our slave and end up even worse than that lady after we're done with you.
The dark, heavy, cold coloured foreground is juxtaposed against the light, colourful background. Notice the dark blue and green in the foreground, where the lady is, against the red and yellow ad on the window and the coffee shop terrace sunscreens in the background. This is telling us to look in the dark places where things are happening and leave all the fake glitter somewhere behind. If you choose to see reality, that is.
What I admire about her is that she doesn't give up and crawl somewhere hiding her misery from the world but, on the contrary, she goes out and fights, giving a meaning to her existence and setting an example of strong will for all those who prefer to kick back and do nothing.
My respect!
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A rich person will feel the choice and careful heart to seek their friend who is equally equal to them and the poor will be inferior or embarrassed to find a friend because he is ashamed of life that he perfect.
why there are people who think like this ?? This life can not be repeated hopefully we can live in a world that is entangled like a crocodile of the rich and the poor of the poor is a dumb and ignorant regulator in happiness. Because life is full of color means in life there must be rich-poor, evil-well if life in one color there are rich people all or there are poor people where there is mutual help or give each other activities happiness is not happiness for themselves happy but true happiness is to make other people happy.
For the poor do not feel isolated in the association of the world because a friendship or communication can not be in value with money, money is the one and will be exhausted but the hearts of each other will never run out because the heart has no numbers or values and for the rich do not exclude the poor because they are there to follow your life and give color to your life.
Live the sharing and understanding that you receive is a very happy being in your life journey to the burial ground where you all come from. There are many and never-ending things about the rich and the poor one of which I will discuss again is that there is another equation that is rarely noticed and in the realization is the same the Rich learns for the poor and the poor learns from the rich.
Make the ngersa the rich do not need perotes from my arugumen and feel prestige :) The rich can learn from the poor example of the rich will learn how to enjoy life with pure affection kasdih pure love only tampa dizzy with work in the world and not spend time just looking for a material because the poor even though they do not have cars or goods that only have rich people but they can smile and love each other members of the family for them to pass the day and can with the family is enough for them and they are not in the confines with prestige, polpularity, or the views of people around.
Skin people learn how to change their family life ar get rich. happy birthday. my message So whatever you are all you guys have to share and keep the spirit of living life in various colors of life.
interesting ..
You see there is something missing ..
It's values of justice
Well done, thanks for sharing
Well she only gets respects and likes from social media thats our very big problem...
I don't know what you did except taking photo of her.
I feel so bad for all people who are in this position and i wish we could and we helped them. Nice post by the way and inspirational but i always say when i see photos like that. Why dont they help this people instead of photoshooting :)
Respect <3
My attention is immediately drawn to the background on the right. It looks so bright and cheerful back there. LIke there is an outdoor patio where people are just about to sit and enjoy a wonderful lunch. All while just 50 feet away this poor old lady lurches in the shadows for the only meal she knows. Such a big contrast.
While the official Census Bureau's poverty measure shows 9 percent of the elderly nationally living in poverty, the share rises to about one in seven seniors (15 percent) under the Supplemental Poverty Bureau of the Legal Bureau, which takes into account out-of-pocket health costs and geographical differences in living costs . Produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Old and Poor: Forgotten America provides portraits of elderly people living in poverty, both in urban and rural areas across the United States.
This video shows the difficult challenges facing low-income parents to meet needs; Every day, they conjure up the cost of health care, safe housing, transportation and food. With live interviews with low-income seniors living in Baltimore, West Virginia, and Los Angeles, the video provides a context for ongoing discussions on policy changes to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
sir @velimir, this is a reality of our society, there is difference in our words and what we do. I don,t know that does you had helped her or not, but peoples usually don't help them. Well I am not a rich one but still I do my best for these people and sometimes be serving them food and sometimes making them laugh. I feel very sad form them but still i am not able to help all of them. Well I know that you are rich and thus i just request you to help them, at lease serve food only one person will be appreciated.
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It's a story that makes us remember the old days. because old age can not be prevented, except by death. use this youth to prepare for old age. do not let old age just suffer. do good and appreciate the day of youth.
Thanks @velimir, this is a great article as life advice
@velimir
Such a great post it is .
Old people like child . they need time they need care like child want . they behave like child.
Its our responsibility to take care of them
Because they need our time and our care .
A say only one thing.
Today we take care and give respect to elders . then tomorrow we will get back the same .
this is a inteligent art of you.your art skills very high level. you art drawing doing properly. feel so bad for all people who are in this position and i wish we could and we helped them. Its our responsibility to take care of them
Because they need our time and our care. thank u very much for your good post of art.good job sir. @velimir
@velimir ...firstly, i appreciate you and your art of photography which defines too many thing just in a single pic...
I dont think there could have been a better tittle other than "OLD AND POOR" ...often, the women of her age giveup quickly, but she is courageous and full of energy.. may God bless her...
RESPECT RESPECT RESPECT to that brave lady and to you as well....