Sometimes when I hike or drive in the desert near my house I get to meet some very special people!
Some nice tourists, families, other desert dwellers and many other special people from the area.
I want to share a very special man that I knew from the Judean desert that lived just a few minutes drive from my hometown and changed a lot of my perspective on life and nature.
**** was a good friend that passed away almost a year ago and we where friends for about 15 years.
I met **** in the desert and we became very good friends and neighbors.
**** was a Bedouin man from a very known Bedouin tribe in the Judean desert.
His family lived in the deserts of Arabia and the Judean desert for hundreds of years and he had the wisdom of the old Bedouin tribes.
He taught me a lot about Desert vegetation, the old Bedouin medicine and much about the way of living in the desert.
Bedouins are basically the “people of the desert”, in Arabic: “Badia”= Desert “Badawi”= Desert man.
I learnt that living in the desert, unconnected to any infrastructures (no running water, no electricity, no sewerage, and no roads), can sound hard but is sometimes even much better than living in a town and can be very liberating.
And yes, he and his family did it by choice and to preserve their culture.
One thing I will never forget is that **** was never running, never shouting and almost never got angry at stuff and his reason was: “this will just be a waist of energy” 
In the desert you have to preserve your energy and learn how to stay calm.
Today I get to work with some of ****'s kids and I visited his family a few times.
I had the opportunity to take a few photos of him so I got them printed and gave a few copies to his sons to keep and take with them everywhere to remember their great and smart father that I loved so much.
I invite everyone here to go out, meet new people and maybe get to know someone that will change your life and your perspective.
R.I.P my friend
*I decided not to write the name and tribe to honor the family and their privacy
