Today is the last day of Ramadan. I barely noticed the passage of time and feel as if the month just started a few days ago. I am not a particularly religious person but I did manage to fast for the majority of the month. I sort of used Ramadan to bring some order into my life and to see if I could successfully face hunger and refrain from temptations. I can say that I no longer depend on certain stimulants such as coffee. I guess the real challenge is to continue living this way for the rest of the year which seems daunting to say the least. I am a man of vice and a slave to carnality and temptation. Virtue has never truly appealed to me.

Ramadan may have also taught me the difference between hunger and starvation. I learned that you can be hungry for a day but that will not make you understand how it feels to starve until you repeatedly experience that hunger day after day. After a while the hunger weakens your body and may be then you can begin to grasp what it must be like for someone who is stricken by poverty and doesn’t have enough food. I am hesitant to say that I fully understand what starvation truly is because even when I was fasting regularly I knew in the back of my mind that I had more than enough food to eat at the end of the day. What must one feel when they are starving and they have no hope for another meal? I hope that I never have to face such a day.

Ramadan has been good to me. I surprised myself as much I surprised some others.

I wish everyone Eid Mubarak.