"Really, really sorry everyone, the pain in life far outweighs the joy."

Javon 2022-11-19 02:50:43

On the night of July 27, 1994, police found photographer Kevin Carter committing suicide with carbon monoxide in the northeastern city of Johannesburg, South Africa. In an apparent suicide - he put a green hose over the car's exhaust pipe to direct the exhaust into the car. People found a note on his seat: "Really, really sorry everyone, the pain in life far outweighs the joy .

" Which side? To applaud Kevin for that wonderful photo? Or complaining about why Kevin didn't save the little girl? I suddenly remembered that one of my old classmates lived in the northeast, graduated from the northwest and went to Hainan to be a reporter . On the one hand , I am different from all the people who come to Sanya to travel. I don't have tropical scenery, blue sky, white clouds, sandy beaches in my eyes... Because I have witnessed too many dark sides of this city, so no matter what the final fate of the little girl is Whether or not Kevin chased away the vultures or not, whether or not Kevin took that world-famous photo just because Kevin was there in person is enough to remember him forever because the pain he went through was far greater than we imagined. PS The reporter classmates in Sanya recently learned that he jumped to a newspaper in Guangzhou, hoping that he would not be lonely in Huadu

































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  • Kevin Carter: They're right. All those people who say it's our job to just sit and watch people die. They're right.