Once I had a dream. No on the top of a mountain. Just during my sleep. A very unusual dream. All the details are gone now. The main subject however stays. It was about one of my two my best friends from abroad. Someone we used to call each other by brother. His name is Mahi.
Someone the first time we met, twenty years ago, sitting side by side at the Royal Lawn Tennis Club of Marrakech, while watching his brother playing, showed me a non-friendly face. I thought to myself with such a face we would never become friends. I was wrong. Completely wrong. The day after my brother told me Mahi and his girl-friend were interested in joining us in our trip to Southern Morocco. In this trip we, my brother and I, were supposed to go with Mahi’s brother, K. We were staying those days at their mother’s home in Marrakech. I was at that moment disagreeably surprised by that wish. The reason was that it was the first time they would go so far South and they had understood my brother knew that region well. I put one condition: Two separate cars, so that at any time each could go his own way, if things would go wrong. It was ok. So we went. The day had not yet finished and we, Mahi and I, had already realized that we were not the persons we thought each other to be. Those eight days were the beginning of one of my best and most important friendships. After that, during years, I used to take the train in Amsterdam to Paris to visit him. His best friends there became my friends. Exceptional people. Because Mahi is a very exceptional person. Some months ago, I suppose, I had already written that one day I would write about him. It will not be today. It will take time. His greatness and my feelings as close friend do not make it easy to do it now. I will do it when the right time comes.
The day after, however, I could not avoid putting down the fact of that dream. We had not had any contact since a long time. Too, too long. That was exactly what my dream was about. A conversation with him about this bizarre fact. A hard dream. It impressed me very much. I know our friendship is eternal. On the other way, in the dream it was incomprehensible that our silence was taking such a dimension. I know very well that even in silence we are there for each other. Last time when we met in Albufeira we both made it clear. We were sitting at a long table, we had finished our dinner together with his family, there were lots of people making a immense noise around us, but in those moments, as we had done so many times in other places, we said what was essential. As essential as Mahi has always been to me as a friend in these past twenty years. As a real brother.
As I woke up from that unique dream I could not stop thinking of it. I had to contact him again. Unfortunately last time I had sent him a email I had not received a reply. There could be two reasons for that: either he was away in one of his Art exhibitions or presentation of a book (Mahi began as a mathematician and years ago turned into an excellent artist and great writer) or he had a different email. I sent his bother K. an email saying I had had a dream about Mahi and I would like very much to get his current email address. The day had not yet finished and I got an email directly from him. Those simple words immediately did me think of things he once had told me in Paris about things I was unable to believe. I only did at that time because it were his words and no one’s else. There are real amazing coincidences. Once again.


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