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 “The Three Keys: 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 23rd 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, "The Three Keys: Freedom, Dream & Love" (An anthology of Moroccan New Short Story in Three
Volumes) 2006-2007-2008, "The History of Manipulating Professional Contests in
Morocco" (Syndical manifestos in Two Volumes) 2009-2011, "Death of the Author" 2010…
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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