On Guard

I’m in Rome. Italy. It’s so hard to take pictures here, because everything you see is famous and you’ve seen 1001 pictures of all those things and those pics will all be better than anything you take.

And everything is so so so old and historical and there’s so much of it around every corner and you start actually believing that you understand what it means for something to be 2000 years old.

But you don’t. And you can’t.

Anyway, I’ve always thought the Swiss Guards seemed fake and silly. But they aren’t, especially when they yell at you for crossing some imaginary barrier. I was so thrilled to understand their realness.