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People in the village loved each other as brothers and loved life deeply, living with joy
and fulfillment. He received a masculine warmth he had never felt before
but which gave off frequencies resonating in his body giving him a great pleasure
and desire to be.
He felt for the first time that life could be a different thing from solitude,
and then tears pour out from eyes so he thought something bad was happening because
the only times that it happened to him was when he had injuried to work..
But he felt good this time.. and he understood for the first time that
the tears could coming out not only for pain but also joy.
In banned books he had read something about the joy, but he realized
he had never really tried it until that moment.
There were also many women, but they were neither slaves nor submitted,
they were beautiful and sunny too, full of joy even without smiling and when
they smile it was like seeing a birth flower.. it was like to be touched
by a cool and fragrant breeze.
He had never seen a smile like this before, it fell in love for those women immediately.
On Elsaf smile was a standard procedure, a requirement in public places,
with heavy penalties and punishments for those who do not meticulously observed
default behavior, but here those women seemed to smile because they wanted to do,
wishes.. he began to feel this inside .. desire, that's what it was..
as the joy he felt for the first time.
Touching was the encounter with the father of his new friend. The man, only apparently old,
had the same sparkling eyes of his son, and after a strong handshake he began to talk about
things that nobody was talking more in the city: the community, the respect for nature,
the importance of valors and shared rules, the man, the woman, the music, the beauty.
Zed had a long talk with that old wise man.
Now, all was clear. The teachers had been lying since the beginning..
they had been manipulating him since he was a boy.
The world outside was beautiful. Wise and strong men, soft and natural women,
beautiful and different human beings, they didn't seem like animals although
they lived in balance with creatures and nature, and of course they were
much more human than people in the place he had grown up in.
From the joy of heaven where he was, he suddenly fell heavily on earth
and he was pierced by a pain inside the heart: his people were dying.
His people were not even living.. his.. "his" people he was saying..
what was this? .. membership.. sense of belonging.. he had never felt something like this,
in Elsaf they taught him that a person was only a human resource,
but here everything was changed.. now he had observed the group, the tribe,
one only united thing, in harmony, he realized that it was necessary to treat
the individual and the community together the same way..
it wasn't a choice between.. and his community was in need of help.
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