Eid for me this time around commemorates an understanding of humanity deeper than the pursuit of happiness
I hope you had a fufilling Ramadhan. My mother fasted on some days, too. She’s under the weather, right now, but insists she is fine.
It has been and continues to be very cold here in Nairobi, though, for us, at least. We have coughs and colds and freezing knees. I stopped fasting after Saida stopped school! No point in getting mad and then regretting it especially during the fast – that in itself is hell which we are trying to avoid by practicing the fast!
Though I stopped the food fast, I still learned a LOT during this Ramadhan: Most importantly, fasting is not just about stopping food (which I think I learnt by focusing my awareness on the things that happen when one does a food-fast ie stop food). There is a reward to the practice and it is intrinsic – derived from the traditions, the gatherings, the change in attitudes, however temporary, and the diversion, even.
Ismailimail 