THE MOROCCAN DREAM

AN ANTHOLOGY OF MOROCCAN NEW SHORT STORY, VOLUME 2

In Love

-Short Story-

Written by Mohamed Saïd Raïhani

"Freedom, dear son, requires framing and tutorship. Dream can serve Freedom when his help is needed. Dreams, however, will need practical actions to make them real. Looking out to achieve «The Dream of Freedom», there can be no practical action more efficient than Love.

Love, dear son, is an endless journey. It is an adventure that can get you to the world of maturity, to the world of giving.

Love is giving, dear son: Giving from your money, your time, your mind, your soul and your body…

Love is the manifestation of the healthy development in your character. However, dear son, you will neither experience full love nor enjoy the pleasure of being in love before loving yourself.

Love yourself before you love anybody else. Go back to yourself. Identify your shining points. Control your strong points. Enjoy your beauty before the mirror. Remember the happy moments and the shining memories that have taken place in your past life and bring them back again to your present. Review your positive glossary and the forms of your communication with your interlocutors. Pride yourself on what distinguishes you from other people, knowing that only Difference justifies the continuity of Existence.

Dear son, Love yourself so that you can easily love others. By owning love, you will set the wretched free; by owning happiness, you will deliver the miserable out of their gloomy cells; and by owning light, you will make the whole place around you brighter for all those stumbling silently in their internal gloom."

An extract from “Freedom, Dream & Love”,

A short story in “The Season of Migration to Anywhere”,

(A Collection of Short Stories Published in Arabic by Mohamed Saïd Raïhani in 2006)

Mohamed Saïd Raïhani

Translator & short-story writer

Author Of:

"The Singularity Will"

(A Semiotic Study on First-names) 2001,

"Waiting For the Morning" (Short stories) 2003,

"Thus Spoke Santa Lugar-Verde"

(Short stories) 2005,

"The Season Of Migration to Anywhere"

(Short stories) 2006

Subject-matter in Printing:

"Beyond Writing & Reading"

(testimonies)

"Kais & Juliet"

(Novel)

"When Photo Talks"

(Photo-Autobiography)

A mysterious power is steering me this evening towards this shady tree. A magnetic power is dragging me along to privacy under the branches of this wise tree… and I feel safe from the pursuit of the curious breaths chasing me all day long:

- You look absent-minded!

- Your hands are so cold!

- Are you in love?

- In love! I bet you're in love!

My philosophy teacher, himself, stopped in the middle of today's lecture to notify me:

- Look here, dear. Try to focus your mind exclusively on the lecture to enjoy it. You will never understand anything without enjoying it. Pleasure and understanding are two faces for one coin. So, invest your energy in focusing solely on this lecture in this space at this moment: This, Here, Now.

The pulsation of the tree trunk shaking my ribs is reminding me of my teacher's wisdom and I find myself "now" observing "this" sunset agonizing "here".

The blackness of the night is licking the intermingling colours in the horizon where stars have already inaugurated their race for a place in the sky. Stars are now winking at one another from an immemorial remoteness. Tonight, stars do not look the way they have always done. They are not mere embers set aflame in the blackness of the universe. Stars, tonight, are showing their very private life vibrating with love and pulsing with passion.

The brightest stars like the one over there are two stars in one if we trust modern astronomy: An orange (male) star and a blue (female) one closely connected to each other by an invisible attraction and spinning around in a silent shining courtship.

Stars may be shining only for being involved in love. Without love, they may have lost their sparkle and broken up in the void like any other lonely, destitute meteors.

Now, I am taking delight in the shining love of the stars in the sky. A thousands-year-old love between stars thousands light years away. The glitter of stars garnishes the sky and adds a loving dimension to the mechanical movement of the celestial bodies.

The pulse of the tree is streaming coolly through my trunk, pouring forth new energies in my veins, enlarging me, magnifying me…And, in very few moments, I will be able to grasp the moon that has started his first rolls on the horizon, here, between the palms of my hands.

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* The writer, Mohamed Saïd Raïhani, is a Moroccan translator, scholar & short-story writer, born on December 23^rd 1968 in Ksar El Kébir. He published in Arabic "The Singularity Will" (A Semiotic Study on First-names) 2001, "Waiting For the Morning" (Short stories) 2003, "Thus Spoke Santa Lugar-Verde" (Short stories) 2005, "The Season Of Migration to Anywhere" (Short stories) 2006. He is getting ready for printing:"Beyond Writing & Reading " (testimonies) , "Kais & Juliet" ( Novel) and ""When Photo Talks" (Photo-Autobiography).

* "In Love" is the fifth narrative text in the "The Anthology Of Love", An Anthology of Moroccan New Short Story, Volume 2, directed by Mohamed Saïd Raïhani.

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This Short Story Is Re-published On the Following Links:

AFNAN	PEARL TREE	WIKIPEDIA
	ALADABIA

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