What...You only have 37 pairs of Nike's?

I took this photo whilst travelling though Vietnam. The lady you see in the image was washing some vegetables and cooking utensils in the river. I wondered how dirty the vegetables and cooking utensils could have been for her to risk dipping them in the river which seemed to me quite unclean. If I drank from it I'd probably be throwing up for the next week or so if not dead.

This old lay has probably been doing this for years, her whole life I suppose really. Living with no running water and having to walk down to the river must make things difficult. It makes me wonder at the way that I live; Comfortably within my small home with water directly from the faucet, power with a simple flick of a switch and a solid roof over my head with no leaks.

A modern, first world, society seems to have everything in abundance and yet I wonder who is happier. The old lady by the river or the first-world-human forever chasing, but never managing to capture, everything required to be a first-world-human. You know, the important things like a new phone every year, another pair of shoes because 37 pairs of Nike running shoes could never be enough and that 1-quart cup of soy-half-strength-decaf-almond-milk-triple-shot-hazelnut-capuccino-latte you get each morning from your local coffee spot.

I guess it's a moot point. Most people will never see the lady washing her greens in the filthy river even if they pass by like I did, they'll be too busy duck-face pouting into their new iPhone 10 to capture that perfect selfie for Facebook.

Just a thought.