As a Lao, what is the meaning of life?
What is life? I ask myself: is it like the prototype of one of my friend. Yeah, it should be. Why not? He is a successful medical doctor. He has an income of 6 digits. Still, he wants more. He dreams of living in a mansion, driving a Roll-Royce and living a lifestyle of the rich and famous. Or is it like my another friend who goes to Muang Lao exhausting herself for the betterment of the villagers? Almost 5 years have passed, she is still there frustrating with the way thing is going. Living like a poor though coming from a middle-class family, she wastes her youth like an idiot though highly-educated. Is this life? I don’t know. If possible, virtually everyone wants to live an affluent life. Who wants to live days in days out worrying about what we are going to eat, where we are to stay and how we are going to survive in the cut- throat market economy. At the same time, we want our lives to be meaningful with a conscience that what we do is not jut for ourselves, but also for others w
