Barbora
HR admin
I’ve been in the PRAHO! project for a few months, but I’ve known it for much longer. I first stumbled upon it a few years back during an autumn walk in Letná, when I noticed a QR code on a bench. I was in a period of my life where I was thinking a lot about where to move next, and one of the questions I came across genuinely stopped me for a moment. I don’t remember its exact wording anymore, but I remember the feeling. It made me step out of my constant planning mode and think more about what’s happening right now. I was moved that someone could create such a moment of pause in a public space and invite people toward greater mindfulness — toward themselves and toward the city around them.
That’s exactly what PRAHO! means to me. A kind of reminder that we don’t have to just get through life on autopilot. That it’s worth stopping now and then, looking around, and being truly present. I think it’s in these very moments that a lot of things start to become clear to us.
In one word, I’d describe the project as a realization. Some questions can’t be quite answered, but they can be lived. That’s what the project reminds me of a lot.
19/6/2026
Favorite testimony
My little fish Knedlík (cz; Dumpling) got cooked in his tank during the summer heat.
When do you feel that you’re truly “alive”?
When I make my bed with fresh, sweet-smelling sheets. When it’s been hot for a long time, and then a storm finally comes. When I’m standing at the airport and realize I have the chance to travel and discover new places. When I’m having a conversation where we both forget about time for a while. During evening walks in summer and autumn. And also when it’s the weekend and I get to laze around in bed for ages.
What stays within you, even when everything around you changes?
A good sense of humor — or rather, a bad one?
What can move you the most?
My grandparents. Or when strangers are kind to one another even when they don’t have to be.
Where do you sense the connection between yourself and others?
Probably at shared events. When I’m at a concert, and everyone’s delighting in the song they’d been looking forward to just as much as I was. Or at the theater, when we all stand up at the end of the performance and applaud together.
What would you like to change in the world?
Lately, mostly more fairness, I think. And I’d also wish that we could learn to slow down a little, appreciate the small things, and stop taking ourselves — and life — quite so deadly seriously.