#2 - creating an understanding,i now know how it feels for those who are less fortunat than I am, an
okay, so it's day two and i was up at 4am. I honestly didn't feel like eating anything, but I did eat some penguin biscuits and some roti. And then I decided to go back to sleep, and so I did.
For some strange reason, I didn't feel too good yesterday, after the fast opened and I could eat. A swirling headache was the last thing I needed, and I went to sleep after taking two paracetamol tablets. So I'm blogging today, at 11:49 and I don't feel hungry to be honest with you, just a tad thirsty but I'm sure that thirst will replenish itself when the fast opens (around 20:27)
For me, fasting is a little inkiling of what others in the world who don't eat for day experience. It is quite worrying to think if one feels hungry by not eating for 16 hours, whereas in the world there are people who don't eat for weeks on end and eventualy die. We as muslims don't fast because it is cool, or we want to torture ourselves. We fast, so that we can become better human beings, by taking into consideration these people who don't eat for days, and for us to give to charity and help make their lives a little easier, and to be more considerate towards others. I just thought I'd clear that up, as it seems that a lot of people are uneducated on these topics, and I think that if you do not have those understandings in place, that is where the barriers exist.
After all we are all human beings, with the samecolour blood running through us.
I need to occupy myself by doing thungs, to not remind myself I have not eaten for x amount of hours. What would that child in Africa do, who hasn't eaten for three days? Well I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to visit my best friend.
Days until Eid: 28
Days until I go back to school: 16