Open Your Eyes: Stormy Life

This photo was taken in Bangkok during the rainy season.

Warm summer rain, how romantic.
Surrounded by speeding cars and their exhaust fumes, the woman has to carry a heavy load through the rain to the shop she’s working at, which is about 500 meters away on the other side of the road. No-one is there to help her carry a little of her burden.

But even though she works her hands to the bone she hardly earns enough to have a colorful life. She can’t afford a car or a carriage, which would make her work easier. She can’t even afford a good pair of shoes, so she has to walk through the rain on a pair of cheap slippers. She lives to work, and works to live. There is nothing else.

However, she is strong enough to walk through all the rain showers and strong headwinds life blows in her face. She keeps going, alone, patiently. And why?