Ok so first of all, I would like to apologize for being away from the blogs for more than a month. Mostly because of Ramadan, although that should not have a great effect on me but, let’s just say that I wasn’t in that frame of mind exactly to do some blogging, nevertheless I am BACK!!!!
It wasn’t the very best of last few weeks tbh, apart from the fact that on 14th August, we celebrated our independence day. I and my family decided to be out in the mall for the occasion of being together for eating out and some shopping too. Mind you, it was the last 10 days of Ramadan, which means that once it ends, we celebrate by observing “Eid” our religious festival. So that automatically means more rush at different shopping centers for the “duhhhhh” reasons.
So we got there, spend some time shopping and once I was done, it was the ladies turn to do theirs, I took time out to look down from the balcony and just stared at the sea of people that looked like they were just pouring in, ever since breaking the fast, I havr hardly seen so many people in a shopping mall. I am sure some of you can relate this to Christmas week perhaps; I am not sure but just saying. Done and dusted, it was time to eat, spend a good time in the food court, just observing the enthusiasm in the people not only from the independence day perspective (because a good amount of them, including me, were wearing Pakistan cricket team jersey for the occasion) but also because Eid is coming too.
Now here is the sad part, its eid day and after having offered our eid prayers, me and my dad come back home and get about our daily routine as it is when there is a holiday. I just concluded that as it used to be in the early days, we were so enthusiastic about Eid that we had people around to celebrate with. I had my aunt that lived at a walking distance from my house and we were there almost every year, all of us cousins and families used to gather there and we just, sort of, had fun. Sadly that is not the case anymore, she has moved to Missouri, ON, Canada, along with her family and other cousins have their own kids to be with in Texas and in U.S. So clearly life is not the way it used to be.
It just hurts to see others enjoying the festival whereas I spend it like any other holiday, Eid, for me, does not have the same charm that It used to have, it has just somewhat become an unwanted kind of an occasion. What hurts the most is that (although I m not sure about this) people of other religions celebrate Christmas (the 12 days) and it just seems that all of the happiness has been drained out from ours and injected into other festivals.
Clearly Eid has lost its appeal, for me, because there Is hardly anyone around to celebrate with. I would not blame my friends for being around because they also have a family and they deserve more to be with them. I just wish that they should not feel the same way as I felt and just value such people in your lives. Because in such a tough world, we may not have all the time in the world to be with our families all the time, but when such occasions come, relationships then matter the most and that is when every moment spend together comes back to haunt us………….
It wasn’t the very best of last few weeks tbh, apart from the fact that on 14th August, we celebrated our independence day. I and my family decided to be out in the mall for the occasion of being together for eating out and some shopping too. Mind you, it was the last 10 days of Ramadan, which means that once it ends, we celebrate by observing “Eid” our religious festival. So that automatically means more rush at different shopping centers for the “duhhhhh” reasons.
So we got there, spend some time shopping and once I was done, it was the ladies turn to do theirs, I took time out to look down from the balcony and just stared at the sea of people that looked like they were just pouring in, ever since breaking the fast, I havr hardly seen so many people in a shopping mall. I am sure some of you can relate this to Christmas week perhaps; I am not sure but just saying. Done and dusted, it was time to eat, spend a good time in the food court, just observing the enthusiasm in the people not only from the independence day perspective (because a good amount of them, including me, were wearing Pakistan cricket team jersey for the occasion) but also because Eid is coming too.
Now here is the sad part, its eid day and after having offered our eid prayers, me and my dad come back home and get about our daily routine as it is when there is a holiday. I just concluded that as it used to be in the early days, we were so enthusiastic about Eid that we had people around to celebrate with. I had my aunt that lived at a walking distance from my house and we were there almost every year, all of us cousins and families used to gather there and we just, sort of, had fun. Sadly that is not the case anymore, she has moved to Missouri, ON, Canada, along with her family and other cousins have their own kids to be with in Texas and in U.S. So clearly life is not the way it used to be.
It just hurts to see others enjoying the festival whereas I spend it like any other holiday, Eid, for me, does not have the same charm that It used to have, it has just somewhat become an unwanted kind of an occasion. What hurts the most is that (although I m not sure about this) people of other religions celebrate Christmas (the 12 days) and it just seems that all of the happiness has been drained out from ours and injected into other festivals.
Clearly Eid has lost its appeal, for me, because there Is hardly anyone around to celebrate with. I would not blame my friends for being around because they also have a family and they deserve more to be with them. I just wish that they should not feel the same way as I felt and just value such people in your lives. Because in such a tough world, we may not have all the time in the world to be with our families all the time, but when such occasions come, relationships then matter the most and that is when every moment spend together comes back to haunt us………….
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