Poignant moment

Hmm, I just received an email from a friend which he is urging everyone to
send to everybody in their address book.

It's a picture of a sad faced little boy, about 2 years old and nobody knows
who he is or where he is from.

I wonder how many other kids are in such a predicament.

 

oldbloke at work wrote

Hundreds of thousands.

 

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The day after the tsunami, we got an email from a friend who lives in
Phuket and has his 90 year old mother staying with him saying that
they were OK. We were very relieved. Today, the Christmas card that
they sent ages before Christmas finally arrived. Then I thought of all
those other cards just being delivered now from people who were
spending Christmas in Phuket but who had not survived - how many
families across Europe are getting this extra whammy of grief?

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True, the sad thing about this one is he obviously is a tourist, so even
wotking out his nationality is going to be hard.

 

Heh, I remember that one, wasn't he trying to amass the world's largest
collection of business cards or something?

 

oldbloke at work wrote

Why, does it affect the price or something?

 

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa102997.htm

I'm just thinking that, even if the identity of the little boy in the
email you mentioned is discovered, this round-robin email will be going
for years.

 

oldbloke at work bored us all completely to death with wittery prose
along the lines of:

That happens every so often in France. Emails arrive with details of
missing kids, asking people to keep an eye out, etc.

 

It may do I suppose, but the point I was trying to make is that the chances
of repatriating him to at least the right country where he may have a chance
of being identified are very slim.

 

A man after my own heart [1].


[1] you, not the 'fat German Paedo'

 

I fear you may be right, he's got blond hair and blue eyes, a typical aryan.

Poor little bugger, it's quite fucked up my day receiving this email.

Bloody glad I don't do foreign holidays as a rule.

 

.... you've just been *whooshed* by Auvache?

 

Proving what I thought about you all along.

 

Actually, I did see where the wizened one was going, hence my "it may do"
comment. I decided not to fully bite as the whole thing has put me in a
somewhat black mood.

 

Christ man, my sides are splitting here.

 

So how do you know why he is sad or that he has anything to do with the
Tsunami aftermath?

Lots. There are thousands dying in a multitude of horrible, preventable
ways in Africa right now.

And what use is just one picture on an e-mail? Why not put 10 or 20?

Misdirected effort is worse than none at all.
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Because that was the point of sending the email, apparently [1]

I am sure you are right, but I wonder how many of them went there for a
holiday.

I quite agree, in fact a whole website dedicated to trying to trace the
parents of kids orphaned by the Tsunami may be more effective in tracing
relatives [2]

Hmm, I'll have to think about that one.

[1] I might add that I have not sent it on to everyone in my address book.
[2] See [1]

 

You'll be all white in a minute.

 

Every time I go to my inbox it's there (as it's the last one I received), I
can't help feeling sorry for the kid.

I think I'll move it to a different folder for now, then perhaps it won't
play on my mind so much.