A vendor selling flowers in a road-side market in Munnar, Kerala.
A vendor selling umbrellas in the same market.
As in any other Indian city, they can be found in numbers, but in Kerala what made the difference was the thinking of the vendors and hawkers. They don’t curse their poverty-stricken life, but have found colors of life in flowers, umbrellas and in their deeds. They enjoy their everyday life. They love what they do!
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This post is my entry in Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life.
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In Mumbai too, I was surprised to see the free spirit of such vendors. We live is good apartments and curse our jobs; looking at them just made me realize what irony life is. Small things in life teach big, really big lessons 🙂
Honestly, I try and curse life a little less now.
Though I tend to give in to the mundane human behavior at times, its heartwarming to see them and get inspired to just keep walking ahead 🙂
Oh it’s great to know that.
And, yes I agree, that feeling of contentment is a must to be free from these thoughts.
Same here, trying to keep up to that spirit 🙂
a beautiful thought shared by you thru your photos and words..
thanks a lot..!
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Beautiful images. Thanks for the pingback!
Thank you, Jeni 🙂
Attitude is everything!
I totally agree!
Great post. Thanks for the pingback
Thank you.
My pleasure!
lovely pics and nice write up that follows!
Thanks Amit..!!
Beautiful pics Tapish! Appreciate the pingback.
Thank you Madhu!
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Wonderful shots for the challenge. 😉
Thank you so much 🙂
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Beautiful Indian pictures. The first with b/w just timeless. But I think the umbrellas picture are good as well. I never seen such pictures of everyday life in India. Thanks for sharing with us.
Oh yeah. My everyday post is about batik, Indonesian traditional clothing. Hope you can visit and read it sometime.
Thank you so much, Albadr! I’m glad you liked them.
Oh, I’ll check it for sure. Thanks.