The first well

It is those childhood flashes that settle in the embrace of his memory, stirred by him to open onto a series of events with their own dimensions in his life's journey. Gibran Ibrahim Gibran recorded them on the pages of "The First Well," and what he recorded is purely personal, purely childish, and his approach to it is centered on the self, as his attention increases, his awareness rises, his sense deepens, and his confusion does not end. And so that he does not slip into family history with its branches (which has its own allure), the writer preferred to continue exploring a single essence that grows with days—awareness, knowledge, and emotion—living with its innocence, clinging to it, and innocence fading from it. Of course, it is part of its surrounding environment—some of those houses, trees, valleys, hills, suns, rains, faces, and voices—by which it lives, and through which it discovers values, morals, beauty, ugliness, joy, and misery all together. Perhaps, intentionally or unintentionally, the writer made the self and the environment sometimes two interchangeable subjects, in one reflecting the other, even symbolically embodying it at times. And because they are in constant decline over time, his attempt was to grasp them in a handful of words, so they would not completely remain hidden.