Face Your Camel

I was very fortunate to spend the weekend in one of the world’s most beautiful villages. Also known for its great apples. Shall heaven exist, why wait until you die to see it? Visit this village and see heaven while you’re alive.

One thing I wish for all of you guys: to experience the same few I hours I spent with a seventy six year-old man whose only source of living is a small piece of land.

We were there at 6:30 am at 1350 meters above sea level. We spent four hours walking in the fields discussing agriculture and wild life in general.

Yes. It was early. But sometimes beauty is hidden where you never expect to find it.

The old man was telling me how he usually looks after his land and, in a way, sending me quick messages on how I should be doing the same with my life and my own.

He told me a story:

There were two brothers living in a small house in the desert. Each one of them had his own camel. The brothers used to feed their camels the same exact food and the camels used to drink the same exact quantity of water.

But. One of the camels was much stronger than the other. Why? That’s exactly what the brother with the weaker camel asked the other brother with the stronger one.

The answer was quick and simple. The brother with the stronger camel said that he always faces his camel at night while sleeping. The other brother was always turning his back to his own.

And that’s how the old man illustrated to me how to always look after my own.

Hanna will never know that I’m writing about him. He doesn’t even know that there is something called the “internet”. I just wanted to share with you some of his philosophy.

It’s Monday. A lot to do at work. I will get back to whatever I was doing and try to always take into Hanna’s words.

I wish his voice could reach some of our world leaders.

Oops. According to them? He’s just a poor old farmer. What does he know?