Today I turned 25. I received a text message with an old photo of me when I was 17, I’m sitting at the beach in my swimmers. Holding my vintage film camera, at the time I was learning photography, that girl was very bright, very curious and so charismatic. She had that youthful spirit and a spark in her eyes that a lot of people get attracted to. The sender was my old neighbour, at the time he was a 40 year old man. Everyone around me knew that he is hanging out with me, more so my aunt herself suggested me to hang out with him to practice English. Obviously the story with him didn’t end up well, now looking back I realise how many weird vibes were there, eventually he tried to SA me but luckily I managed to protect myself with aggression and I never seen or heard from him ever since. A 17 year old girl with a 40 year old man and no one questioned anything, I was hanging out with him quite often, so many people saw it. I was surrounded by grown adults. No one tried to protect me nor even warn me. I protected myself. It’s not just all men but it’s also everybody who keeps it to themselves.