Parallel Lives 

The old woman who collects carton on the street making its recycling possible, the man who calls the lift ensuring an uninterrupted travel for you, the woman who keeps the street clean, the man who opens the door of a commercial building, the man who polishes at 4am the floor of the mall before you can go shopping, the woman who keeps the public toilets clean, the woman who takes care of Hong Kong’s children allowing parents to go to work and earn a career, and many others. These are the women and men who make our lives comfortable and efficient.

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Do we really understand how important they are? What if these valuable parts of the city’s machinery will stop suddenly their duty? Do they have a fair salary to be able to participate to the wealth of the city?

 

The city is made of an infinite number of parallel layers. Layers that do not interact. Some layers are occupied by the lives of men and women making society more efficient and easier for the other men and women, having advantaged lives on other layers. Let’s hope that one day these layers will merge and who is invisible today, although giving a big contribution to modern cities, will be able to benefit from its beauty and prosperity as well.