Small World

During the short time that I’ve been in Prague, I’d always been cautious to approach those on the street as I didn’t want to make it so obvious that I was a tourist. Today during a visit to the Town Square, I was drawn to these two women who were watching a street performer dressed as a tin man. While many tourists passed by them, they seemed to be frozen in time mesmerized by the optical illusion. I was initially drawn to the pair because of their matching silvery hair and was too caught up taking photos to realize that one of my friends had struck up a conversation with them. After talking to them, I learned that they were both from South Carolina and that one of them had a grandson around our age who was in business school. Being surrounded by unfamiliar languages and places for the past few days, meeting them was a nice reminder of how small and interconnected our world is. Seeing how happy they were to be here and how fascinated they were by a spectacle that many others had passed by without blinking an eye made me start to appreciate all the little details around the square just a bit more.