I have heard about one of Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpiece, potato eaters, long time ago. But, I was not eager to take a look on that painting. To be candid, I felt it was very difficult to comprehend artist’s message on paintings. It makes me less engrossed in art of painting. However, I had a chance to take a glance on “potato eater” on previous Saturday. To my astonished, I saw ostensible craft of Van Gogh. He painted a portrait of poor family having dinner together. I immediately noticed emotion in gloomy eyes of one lady on that painting. She seems to be a house wife of family. The way she looked at her husband face is so alive that I can feel her emotions via her beautiful eyes. I also discovered her worries, sadness, depression and tiredness from her eyes expression.
What is poverty? How do you describe its meaning? I would like to paraphrase it as a single word, shortage. When we were living in poverty, we will surely face shortage in all of our needs: food, shelter, knowledge, development, capacity etc. I suppose there is a chain reaction among those needs in our lives. Because of poverty, we have not enough food and shelter to survive on. Therefore, we must focus on instant needs and struggle for it. We have to neglect our long-term goals and dreams but, have to spend time on short-term problem solving for current livings. It will lead to lack of interests and information to broaden our knowledge. Again, it will lead to slow down our progress and improvements on our life skills. Therefore, the poor will be lagging behind the rich regarding to competency and capacity. Without know-hows, it is very difficult to earn lucratively.
What is your opinion to escape from this circle of poverty? To my consent, the best tool to fight back poverty is knowledge and education. We need to educate the poor to hatch out from this nutshell of poverty. Knowledge will change their perspectives on lives.
Sandar
11.7.2011
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