I do. The old walls were like quiet libraries, each brushstroke a deliberate line of history, shared by the whole town. Their stories were earned over generations, not a fleeting moment. Street art, in contrast, is a rapid pulse—vivid, loud, and often a protest or a personal shout. It writes over the past in bright bursts, sometimes preserving what’s there, sometimes erasing it. Both are stories, but the ancient ones were written slowly by the collective memory; the modern ones are quick sketches of a living mind.

It’s true, the walls were once silent sentinels, and now we shout in color and sound. Those quick sketches do blur the past, but they’re a kind of living echo that keeps the old stories from falling silent. The next generation will read the paint as we do now, and perhaps add their own brushstroke.