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Even accepting the consumption part as something reasonable that people should do, it still ignores the Time coordinate completely.

The first time I visited Prague, torrential rains had been falling for a while. Half of the city was flooding when I stepped off the bus. I had to wear flip-flops to cross some streets, which looked like shallow paved rivers, otherwise I would have ruined my sneakers. I stayed at my Czech girlfriend's place, a brutalist block built during Russian occupation which fortunately sat on an elevated piece of terrain. We then canoed the Ohře river with some of her friends (perhaps not the brightest idea, given the rains). We were so young.

I have visited Prague a couple more times after that. Each time, everything has been different. The city was no longer flooded. I was with different people. I did actual turism and everything. I ate different things. I was different, myself. I still don't feel I have "done" Prague. And the same goes for the rest of the world.



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