Walls

Architecturally Speaking / Masarykovo nádraži / 22 June 2019

Modernity infiltrates classic. In an old train station in Prague, a vendor stands. A train station in the process of renovation. I looked around as a worker stood on a tall ladder scraping paint away. To be completed, to become something greater.

This is the start of what will come for the beautiful train station. The train station where the tram to Letna stops by. That I have admired multiple times, promising to visit the station for myself sometime. More vendors will pop up, the station will expand in the hopes of serving more travelers. For now there’s only one vendor.

The barrier between those in the service industry and those being served, at least for an English speaker like myself. I get anxious at the grocery store or buying a pastry from a shop in the Metro. Always unsure of what I want to get, frustrating to a Czech. But for some the interaction is smooth.

This goes to show how much humans are willing when others get on their level. I will not know what each food is when I go to buy it. I will have limited ability to make a Czech smile, aside from Mama T!!! Beautiful things happen when we have the skills to make the wall between us as humans have a few cracks in it, so the light can pour in.