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Dice in my eyes

Fadel, the stoned wizard hosted us in an oasis in the desert in Egypt. He was like the dog who accompanied me once in a forest when I was looking for firewood.
He was always at a parallel path passing between trees and my sight or waiting at a higher crossroad anticipating my return. At night he asked why we came. I replied it was an invitation from the universe. My friend translated me: "She means Allah told her to come."

My friend Tidjan who is originally speaking French was looking for the English word for coincidence.
In French it is 'par hazard' but in English hazard means danger.
The arabic term eagerly jumps of my tongue.
Maktub.
Maktub means, 'it is written'. Tidjan brought Paolo Coehlo's novel The Alchemist to the trip. In this book one writes their own destiny. He introduces the main personage to the word Maktub. After the trip it became common use between me and the Tidjan personage.

Fadel seems to totally understand what I mean. Where this word vanished at an earlier moment when I wanted to drop it in Cairo, it now came to the surface as a surprise to everyone including myself.
So I remarked: "Maktub knows when to come."
Tidjan translated this to Fadel as a Janneke-joke. But no, Janneke is serious. Like water in the desert can make the oasis flourish, humour can flow over dry thoughts to make the mind magic. The next day Fadel's son drove us to the Crystal Desert, where we could find beautiful crystals.

I consult my father about the history of the planet. During the birth of the earth materials solidified and formed the crust. Those materials used to be liquid due to higher temperatures. Under those new circumstances molecules of all materials rearranged themselves in the most efficient way to not waste energy. While some molecules formed ordinary rocks, other molecule of the same material gave shape to crystals.
I adore all stones, pebbles, basalt, sand… But crystals like those from the desert are examples of a course of events so particular that it is breathtaking. Like I said in the first column: the molecular structure of crystal looks like a die. In my eyes, my father the chemist reminds me to add. In my eyes it looks like a die. For that I do not have to be stoned. Despite the rest the molecules have found, it seems they are always ready to move.

Later Tidjan told me that the word hazard, which actually can mean the same as chance, is derived from the arabic 'al-zahr' which means the die.

Coincidence is a possible way matter could have been shaped. Everything could have happened otherwise, but it did not. It is like with words. Maktub could have meant something else, but it does not either. We could try to change it. Maybe it is time for some new words. But who ever makes up words in advance? Words are also possibilities happened to be shaped the way they are shaped.