The Wall

You can read the marvelous tale of the Great Wall of China anywhere. Before you open a big, luxurious book about a distant, fantastical, and wondrous land, you'll see this wall on its covers. It's long, unbreakable, and massive; it divided a great empire from other powerful countries looming as a threat on It, stopped whole armies, but also stopped lots of possible mutual understanding and conversations, those good things that could have happened, too, once upon a time in this faraway land,  If It wasn't there.

 If you suddenly type “The Great Wall of China” in English on the Internet on your newest laptop's shiny screen, countless pieces of information are bound to appear. You will find as much information about It online, surely as much as there are grains of rice, which are picked in the land where It was created by the women wearing straw hats and traditional Chinese suits in the rice fields west of Shanghai.

You'll read that It's long, and very wide too. If you click on one of the pages, you'll get some interesting information that you can read. It was built by the Qin dynasty first. On each one, truly on each one, you can read that It's the only visible fortification or building on Earth from space, which certainly isn't true scientifically speaking.

I read that all, too, and found out. It was built by 300,000 million soldiers, workers, labourers, and peasantry that Emperor Qin Shi Huang ordered to build Great Wall. Later millions and millions of workers, across 2,300 years, to finish It. Rome wasn't built in a day, nor wasn't this large fortress. Imagine this- It took whole two millenniums and 300 years, 23 times a hundred years, which is still a lot for a human… It's bigger than life, indeed.

 Maybe It will happen that you start the TV, showing a documentary about China, and you will see a picture in your head, millions and millions of people rounded up to put stone after stone onto each other. Take the stone, put It. Take the stone, put It. Just imagine how many lives were spent in the building of this wall, how many families lived from It, how many centuries were spent dreaming about It in the eyes of the Chinese imperial architects, and how many lives were generally needed for such a mighty fortification…Nobody could ever make it crumble, pass It, or just plainly put- defeat.

    You will find all this in books, tourist brochures, and legends and myths of ancient Peoples and Chinese folk. But maybe you already know all of It well:

 Because the invisible wall, an unbreakable one, made only out of silence, was built by you, yourself, between the two of us in only one moment, you, an ordinary girl, who isn't capable of lifting a single large rock.

And this wall, which you built in one moment, will stay there forever and remain invisible to everyone except you and me.