Bedouins

There is a story about a Bedouin living far from Damascus, in the interior of Syria, who was disappointed when he rode a train for the first time. "I'm not satisfied," he complained to his friend. "The ticket was expensive, but the journey ended too quickly."

This might sound stupidlike other stories city people make up to poke fun at country peoplebut actually the Bedouin makes modern people aware: reaching someplace 'quickly', which to most of us is the formula of achievement in our times, might not equate the value of experience. Speed produces results but at the same time wards off something else.

February 23, 2016