Gaudí

Went to the Gaudí Cathedral today and boy was it impressive. It was a lot like the way you imagine old Cathedrals to have been. Except now our scope is bigger, so the building is bigger and more fantastic. There are more colors and movement to the design. It makes you realize what it must have been like to walk into a Cathedral during the Middle Ages and how you could see the power of God through the building, because it was so massive, there was so powerful of a presence.

That's the thing about Europe, the way you feel connected to the past here. They don't give up on some of the old things and the old ways of working. When you go to a city in Europe, the likeliness of finding a Cathedral is pretty good. What you realize when you hear the history, is that the building probably took several generations to see the completion of the Cathedral and the people who started it wouldn't live to see the day of its completion. That is how the Cathedral being built today is: Gaudí died in 1926 and still, people work towards finishing this incredible building. There is no end in sight, but when you see it and stand in its massive interior you understand why people are still building and still looking. Europeans aren't afraid of taking time and of going for the long haul. You realize when you are in these buildings that you are a part of history and not just separate from it. The choices you make now are historical, they are meaningful to the past and the future. You are connected to the people who were there before you just as much as the people who will come after you.