It seems Ramadhan has cast its shadow on these last few days. Between twitter and facebook, I've been receiving the daily countdown accompanied by everyone's fear of the 16 hour days without food. As excited as I am to go to the countless iftars, I too am skeptical of the long relentless hours. Its mostly because I'm terrified of evaporating away with the summer heat. I lack the additional mass to keep me grounded by gravity. I mean who wants to turn to the side and have everyone wonder "WHERE DID SARA GO?!"
All week my coworkers have been reminding me, Ramadhan is just around the corner. It was difficult to forget, since I was fasting half of the week. Is anyone else like me who feels the need to hype up how simple fasting is? "Its really not that difficult. I go through most of my days just chillaxing. Aint nothin' but a chicken wangg." But in reality by noon I'm ready to gnaw off my own arm. And I find the need to punish myself while I'm fasting. I look up recipes to cook for iftar, which leads to me salivating at my keyboard. By 5pm I'm looking to find new activities to indulge on, just to keep my mind off of food. I spend about an hour playing super meat boy, and again am reminded of food. Who would think a little square box of raw meat would look so delicious running across your computer screen?!?
Now its 6 or 7pm and I think why not read some Quran or duas? So for the next hour to hour and half I'm on duas.org reading one dua or another. And by the last hour of my fasting I'm laying belly flat on the sofa moaning and groaning about how the next 60 minutes couldn't come any sooner. I finally manage to pull myself off the sofa and stir up a side dish to add to my mom's beautifully prepared Iranian feast. This lady is superwoman I tell you!
Blogger as my witness, this Ramadhan will be a productive one.
A friend posted this on link on facebook:
http://www.productiveramadan.com/the-ramadan-nutrition-and-workout-plan-for-success-part-ii/
I'm hoping it'll be useful.
An early Ramadhan Mubarak to all!!!! :D
