Nothing can ever equal the feeling of happiness. Connor Ford has been pursuing his dream as a photographer, traveling all around the world to take pictures of human experience, from the world’s worst wars and disasters to the world’s most beautiful scenery that find him fame but never happiness. He lives a life he thinks has no purpose, and again and again he dares death to take him. He travels to Uganda to take pictures of the civil war and to show the rest of the world what it was like to live in such a situation; women and children were physically and emotionally abused. He becomes involved between two brothers who were separated from each other because one was considered “not good enough” and was left from the rest of the group, left to starve. Connor sees the boy and brings him to an orphanage. Then, he also meets his brother and tries to bring them back together; he even proposes to buy forty other children to save them from the horrific world they are experiencing and to let them experience freedom.
Many people feel the same way he did – sympathy and sorrow – but not many people take action like he did. It really touches my heart when I see or hear stories similar to this. It makes me want to make the same difference to someone else’s life; I think it is one true definition of happiness. Being a smoke jumper itself, Connor risks his life to save the forest and stop the fire that could change so many lives including his. People who have faced danger and have taken a journey to the dark heart of human suffering makes me realize how much one person can go through and wonder how much more can one can go through – life is full of choices after all.
