Dear Italy... Greetings from Sri Lanka!

I didn’t know much about paintings or why Mona Lisa was such famous back then but I got to know about who drew it, the one and only Leonardo da Vinci the GREAT. Oh yes! that guy inspired me a lot as a school kid. Every time I read about him, I was thinking how can a man have such imagination power. I wanted that.. may be his sharp mind were developed through painting. I can paint, that’s what I thought and I tried. Didn’t work to the superhuman extend, but I was able to sketch my crush back then 😊 not a bad skill to have as a teenager.

I watched cartoons even now, well you shouldn’t lose the kid in you ever, I remember watching Astrix without missing one single episode, it was dubbed to Sinhala and cartoon was called සූර පප්පා (Soora Pappa). I can still LMAO to the dialogs they had. From the cartoon we Sri Lankan is very much known to the Rome city, Roman Empire & Julius Caesar.

Time went by, I missed painting.. I missed watching cartoons, I had to sit for an exam to continue my higher studies. I selected science as my higher studies for no reason, maybe I had so many motivations from greats such as Da Vinci & Galileo Galilei. Italy can be so proud nation providing such universal genius to the world.

All these are some fascinating childhood memories and it is so wonderful how Italy is connected. Never thought about influence your culture had in us. Hope to visit this great land someday. Thank you @girolamomarotta for refreshing my memories and organizing this interesting contest. And thanks to my Sri Lankan friend @besticofinder & @vishwara for introducing this contest to me. I very much enjoyed it.