Life Of Berbers

When we first arrived to the deep canyons of Taghia, I was looking at those native people there, building their houses in the center of nowhere, at the place where it is hard to raise any plants, keep animals and everyday life is the struggle in cold, wind and dust. Why do these people live here, I asked myself for several times...

We had a chance to stay there for one week, climbing around, but as well sharing living with Berbers and to feel a bit how is it to live such a simple lives. Lives without cars, televisions, newspaper, supermarkets and all those products of modern society without which we can not imagine our lifes anymore.

Even though we came there to climb and so we did, climbing on marvelous rock, beautiful limestone, long a and superb routes in great and picturesque surroundings, the more I got from this trip was the regeneration of mind. In a couple days in this place, man sees a world a bit different. You see how few you really need in life. Some sleep in the night, a bit of simple food, then the sun to shine in your face and couple of friends around to make you smile. That`s it. No money, no information, no greed, no envy. You can feel then the essence of life.

And then I got it. I know now why Berbers live there. Because they are happy there. They`ve got their lives and love for others over there and that`s all they need. They raise their kids, work for living and enjoy the pure life. Happy people.
But then you see the civilization changing their lives, making their lives more similar to ours, changing their values and creating new needs. And I`m just affraid that with the satelite TV`s, Coke, candies and other useless things, also the greed and envy will come and change their lives forever...