Innocence Lost...

One day, as I was walking out of a shopping mall toilet with my friends, a little boy ran out from the ladies toilet, shouting something, the whole world could hear him. He shouted,

"Ba ba!! Ma ma lao sai!!!" (Daddy! Mommy has diarrhea!!)

Immediately, me and my friends burst into laughter, but discreetly la. (duh) After our hearty chuckle, heheh, a thought just came to me.
This kid is as innocent as can be. To him, diarrhea is something as normal as sneezing and that there is nothing to be ashamed of. Well, having diarrhea is normal.. but how many of us would shout it out for the whole world to know?? Correct?

I like relating innocence to kids.. it just makes sense!! Not that they are naive, just innocent. To them, there are no bad people, everybody is just like them and equal. There is no 'colour', no bad-mouthing, no evil. If they don't like you, they will tell you straight to your face with no harboured evil feelings. They mean it purely from their heart with hope that you will understand them.

Then, it just hit me..

I am no longer innocent...

I now know how to criticise people. I judge them harshly, before I get to know them. I talk bad about people behind their backs (which I don't have the courage to tell them straight to their faces). Coward that I am. I harbor evil feelings towards people and think badly about them. People to me now, are separated into two, the good and the bad. I see by 'colours' sometimes and because of that, I get blinded by the 'bright colours', unable to see the better nature of people.

Come to think of it, it's kinda sad in a way.. that I can no longer be as innocent as a kid..