A barefoot youngster sitting alone on a busy restaurant doorway, munching away on a fried chip without a care of his busy surroundings, tugs at the heart strings in many ways.

With his eyes closed and a tasty potato chip in his mouth, he is definitely in a world, exclusively of his own at this very moment.

His awareness senses are fixed on his taste buds. Full on. 

He maybe sitting next to one of the busiest intersections in the heart of Apia but any awareness of the passing cars and people are shut out.

Why not! The young man is in a world where life is simple, innocent, happy and far away from the tangled jungle the adults are in.

As Mr. Spock would say somewhere, out there, in his galaxy travels, “Live Long and Prosper’, young man.