Innocence (Baraka post)

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey. I took this when I visit Istanbul this year. Still my favourite place ever.

On a lazy Friday, my lecturer showed us a movie. It was a non narrative movie. Those kind of movies were never appealing to me. My cousin, who is in the NGO, is really into these kind of movies, so whenever I visit him, I can see all these movies playing on his television. Therefore, I had glimpse of what was installed. As we sat down, I wondered if I could stay awake for the whole movie. I watched the beautiful sceneries the world has to offer. My mind started to wonder. The word innocence starting playing around my head. When I think of innocence, I think of my childhood. My childhood was different than others. Ever since I was born, I moved around Malaysia due to my dad's job. I actually had the chance to live in an estate. It was an eye opening experience even though I can't remember much of it. My mother used to tell me stories of how we had to cross a river to go town. Many kids go to school by a car or bus, my brother went to school by a boat! Being in an estate meant that we could see all kinds of animals. Snakes and monitor lizards were our guests. I remember a cobra slithering right past me! My dad soon got a transfer to Indonesia and we moved to Taiping, Perak. My food heaven. My life in Taiping was pretty average however, I did start going on airplanes. That's when I started to developed an interest for travelling. I spent almost every holiday abroad. I even took longer holidays than everyone else. I would say the worst moment of my childhood was losing my grandmother. It was very unexpected. Imagine, your grandmother cooking for you on Friday and on Saturday, you get a call saying she passed away. I was only 11 when it happened. It's hard losing someone at that age. Especially someone who is very close to you. Anyways, what I wanted to say was, being a child is just like the exotic scenery in the beginning of the movie. It's beautiful, it's unique and it is definitely innocent.