A World With The Morning View
Time flies fast — weeks, months, years are already in the past. Everyone has childhood memories, no matter if they are positive or not. What is coming to my mind while talking about childhood morning, it’s quite a little kitchen but at the same time full of people.
This photo was taken in 1998
I’m enjoying my breakfast consisting of bread with butter & cheese and tea with five granulated sugar teaspoons. Later, in approximately 15 minutes, I will leave the apartment for school. For sure, table-talk was full of simple discussions between my parents about the upcoming day, and my mind was sometimes worried because of the lessons I probably haven’t prepared very well and my brother. He was also doing something.
Sounds very old. But in my imagination, it has a special color, and I’m more than sure that if these memories were a dish, it would be advised in one of the most expensive & famous restaurants for special customers. It was time when you would laugh and consider someone as an idiot because of phrases like “the US declare war to the Muslim world” or “Twin Towers fell,” which in fact had happened a few years later.
To be short — I had a real Good Morning at that time. It was a Good Morning almost to all the world. But how morning looks like today? Two weeks of 2015 already passed, the world is getting worse, and the phrase “Good morning” lost the essence in this world. I mean, like, If I were boss of a company with an employer whose values are alike “Good morning,” I would have fired him due to the falsehood.
I’m more than sure that people are getting to use more “Hey,” “Hi!”, “Hello,” etc., instead of “Good morning.” I guess even I do that because my morning is a notebook with an internet connection (it’s 21st century, dude), Euronews, and BBC channels.
“Charlie hebdo,” “War in Ukraine,” “US’s war in all world” — as an act of democracy, a war in Near East, a war in Africa, Ebola, little wars with tremendous consequences as it was and partly still in Azerbaijan, problems in Caucasus region and some eastern European countries, I can go on and recite about it infinitely, God bless my memory’s ability.
And yeah, this is a typical morning.
Or some posts about how many people were killed by police in the US, France, and some other democratic countries. Or how Muslims are bad or contrariwise. It’s not about choosing the wrong channels to be updated on the latest news, nope.
I’m living in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan. If you don’t know: in my opinion, this place is quite calm despite that newspapers occasionally show the inhumanity of some murderers and so on, and you do understand that you share your city with such frightful people. Despite this fact, I call this city calm, maybe because some bad things haven’t touched me, fortunately.
I’m saying “Good morning” because every morning’s terrifying news is coming mostly from newspapers than from my eyes.
I worry because maybe I share the city, streets, or whatever with the wrong people. Still, the worst thing is that…we do share one sky with wars, with injustice, with fake acts of terrorism by the interest of someone, with separation people on religions, with…with a ghostly future.
Despite this post, I call myself quite a positive person, and I’m happy that I haven’t changed.
I am just a little bit disappointed. Imagine that “World” is your dearest friend, but he changed, and you can’t understand how and why you let him do it.
Whatever, Good morning!
This article was originally published on the 16th of January 2015.
