Fijians...ahhhh

Despite all their passivity, formalities, and often narrow-mindedness, I find that Fijians live a far more blatant and direct life than so-called up-front, direct, and open-minded Westerners. Because roles are more limited here people generally know where they stand with each other. Because people live off the land they are closer to their food. Because people cannot send people off to old age homes they are closer to caring and death of their loved ones. Although people here are generally poor in wealth, they are generally wealthy in happiness and often lacking in superficial judgment. (I stole this from a fellow PCV..he put it so well...and let me steal it too!)

** if you click on the photo..you can see the whole thing