would like first to thank you for having
me here today to talk about how far they
can promote coexistence it’s something
that I really like and yeah I’ve been
troubling for the last years since I was
a kid with my parents I was looking off
to travel the world and then when I was
a during college I was jogging also with
my friends but it was mostly partying
having fun I did enjoy but it wasn’t I
mean I could feel something that
something was missing inside me I wanted
something more added I really didn’t
know what it was so i made this person
who really helped me to find myself he
showed me another way of travelling that
I that we called meditation I started
doing a lot of meditation for the last
two years and I knew that we don’t need
to move our feet our body to travel I
mean I could say in my room and go
everywhere without using any drugs which
was really fun but meditation helped me
because I was shy I wasn’t really
confident and I didn’t know what to do
with my life I just wanted to do some
but I was completely lost again so I
started thinking of who I was and
meditation helped me to know who I was
and what I wanted to be and there was a
big gap between distant statement so as
I’m thinking what it could bring me and
meditation brought me what I call
freedom because I was finally free to do
what I wanted I was fun and free to stop
all these voices in my head from all the
people around me because they want me to
travel in different ways they don’t me
to live their life in fact and I wasn’t
living my life and so I started to free
my mind about everything I started to
think what i wanted to be and i knew
that i wanted to help the world I mean
as I could it’s a big world but I want
you to do something even if it’s small I
started working with an NGO and I
started also to use what I knew
photography and traveling to create this
project that is called there are no
coincidences there were no consensus
started 1 year we go while i was in
london i was really tired of just doing
exhibition and posting my photos on
facebook getting some lights i was tired
of everything i wanted to like i said
how people so i printed 100 photos and i
wrote on the back of each photo few
sentences or few words that maybe could
help someone and i started to spread all
these photos randomly in London without
giving them I just wanted to put them in
random play
on the bench sometimes even in subway on
the table whatever it was I wanted to
make a connection without meeting the
person because I wanted to know how
there were no coincidences this is what
I believe it but I mean some people
believe in karma whatever but I believe
that there are no coincidences I was
looking for the answers and to be honest
I wasn’t really expecting anything from
this project i started with 100 photos
and I didn’t know that I could get any
answers back and something really crazy
happened and I got 25 emails back for my
first experience and what is funny is
that I got some crazy and beautiful
messages from the people I remember the
the first messages that I had was from a
guy the full of the flu was a full of
Iceland and the text on the message on
the the photo was your next destination
would be Iceland and the guys sent me
him and he told me are you following me
I was like no why and he said because
i’m really going to iceland to make
their next month I was like okay that’s
crazy so he started like this it was the
first event that i got and yeah he was
really scared and I was giving I mean
scared also because I couldn’t think
that I’m even if you wanted to calculate
the probability of this thing on how we
can work but yeah it was really going to
Iceland but it wasn’t a mean it was just
the beginning of this project I got also
a guy who who was really depressed he
was going through depression and on the
photo was about babies and it was
written something like dark times are
gone and it’s time to move on the guy I
could feel it in his email he even
wanted to meet me but we couldn’t make
it because I had to go back to
Casablanca but he he was really happy
about it because I don’t know it’s what
is nothing but its design maybe or a
little boost that he was waiting for to
get better so yeah it’s something really
small but see this is what I wanted it
started to be bigger and bigger I
remember also i put a photo up in a
church I really hide it it was crazy
like to find it and this girl found that
she was from the US and she sent me
again an email and the photo was about
don’t care about what they say and just
go for it and she told me that she moved
to
and like her family they were talking to
her anymore because they didn’t believe
in her and she was like this is the best
thing because I wanted a message like
this and you gave it to me even with we
don’t know each other you help me and I
started to think that even the smallest
things can help us and how meditation
helped me is that like i said i started
to be confident and everything and I
started to shut down all the voices in
my head so this project really helped me
to also think how I could travel and I’m
thinking of India one of my last trips i
went there and i also tried the
incidences project but but what i wanted
is not hear what my family and friends
could tell me about india because when i
said india as moroccan a lot of people
will tell you it’s a poor country it’s
dirty there are Hindu whatever a lot of
bad ideas and judgments but I didn’t
want to hear anything about it I just
wanted to go and lived in the present
moment and this is something really also
important this is what I learn
meditation and with this project is that
we have to leave the moment and we have
to forget about the past in the future
we have to live our own life and we have
to go for it and so I went there I
didn’t read any book any guide and
either
I just wanted to close all or shut down
all these voices and just go for it and
this is how I kind of started to try
also to help people with the smile with
sometimes small amount money with I
don’t know whatever it was even in this
small room this small village I went
they were all women bring it back water
to their houses and I was just helping
them with water which is nothing but
they were happy about it and this is how
I think we can travel and this is how
this project helped me also so after my
first experience that I got some people
really liked it and they wanted to be
part of it so we started doing it
everywhere from Hong Kong to Brazil to
Argentina whatever people really loved
it because even sometimes they got only
three or two answers back they really
liked it because they could make a
connection with someone that they didn’t
knew and they will try the own
experience they were waiting for their
own answers and that’s something that
worked it’s something that I wanted to
share because I wanted everyone to try
their own thing and to look for their
own answers and this is a few some few
messages that I got this is one that I
got from London also they were sharing
everything on Twitter on Facebook
something from emails and yeah when
people started doing it they liked it so
now we are like I would say 25 people
who did it around the world from
different national
is Iceland or Logan American also from
UK and I think we all doing it for
different reasons but at least what with
what I think is that in order to learn
something we have to give first this is
what I what I learned about this project
and I wanted to help people but to be
true and to be honest I got more help
buy them because they give me so much
love to give me so much answers back and
I I like this code from the Dimitra
wrote a book called cloud atlas he saved
my life amounts to no more than one drop
in a limitless ocean yet what is any
notion but a multitude of jobs and this
is exactly what I think would what I am
at least I think that I’m a drop in a
limitless ocean but at the center and
also the ocean and I think that no
matter how small we are no matter how
not important and or no moon even if
you’re not president a famous person we
can bring something to the world we can
change the world with our toes and
action I believe in what we call the
butterfly effect that the love that we
give it goes somewhere it doesn’t come
back always as we want but it it always
goes and hate someone somewhere and yeah
this is what it’s all this project is
about is it brought me here
so yeah thank you
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