Fasting makes you trip
I want to blame fasting for making me listless, but it would be a gross simplification. Firstly, I tend to shut down when things don't go my way: in the absence of food, drink, human companionship etc. my natural reflex is to lose my ability to focus and start to operate on stand-by mode. Secondly, if people around me fasted, things would be different. In Egypt, the working day is shortened from 10-3 which makes it that more tolerable. Here, I'm up against people who have had breakfast, fucked their significant others and are all jacked up on coffee and nicotine. There's no way I can compete.
And it's seriously cramping my style (don't laugh at the word style): I can't formulate words in my head, I start sentences and forget where they were going and don't even get me started on trying to be witty or charming with an atttractive young lady. Each attempt at humor takes off briefly, only to land with a soul-crushing thud. I can't get the damn wit out of the hangar, Biggles!
What bothers me about fasting as well, is that it's always associated with a sense of futility for me. I'm not religious which invites others to question my motives for fasting. To Muslims, it's like 'Why even bother when you don't pray and are always twenty minutes away from the next drink'. With non-Muslims, it's like 'Oh, if you fast, you must be more serious about religion than you let on'. And since that religion is Islam, that means suicide-bomber to them.
I shouldn't care what people think, but the truth is I do. I spent most of my life rebelling and rejecting the masses and now, all I want to be is part of them. It's a sure sign that I've grown up when I simply don't care for or about my own individuality.
Isn't that sad?
I can't wait for Ramadan to end. It's tough dealing with it on your own. And as I never tire of telling people: it's supposed to make you feel empathy for the poor and the under-privileged...all it makes me feel is in dire need of locating just such a poor, under-privileged person so I can kick him in the friggin' nuts.
posted by Basil Epicurus at 11:51 AM
7 Comments:
Ya still got it, Basil. Wit has not abandoned you completely. Could be worse: you could be on other people's blog verbally assaulting them in defense of the holy month.
Haha. What a twerp that Raven guy is. I almost feel bad I paid any notice of him.
If you and hubby are ever in NY, Cairogal, you should look me up.
For sure! Have family in the city already, and my brother is moving back to NYC. A trip shall definitely be in order.
As for Raven...of all the months to get so caught up in that discussion...I just think you can't argue about what a bad representative of Christianity someone is when, during Ramadan, you are insulting, crude and mean-spirited. All in the defense of what, I'm not sure. Religion? Nationalism? I didn't see a point in trying to engage him with some common sense since he seemed intent on spewing insults and personal attacks. Shit like that reminds me why some people choose to just maintain a blogger identity and not a blog. On the bright side of things, you have a new visitor to your blog. One more notch in your lipstick case profile.
How far is Astoria from NYC, anyway?
He's desperate for attention. I can smell it on him. He's not trying to make any rational point (certainly not a succinct one), just trying to flex. He's such a cartoon villain, it's hard to take him seriously.
Astoria is actually a neighborhood on the border of Queens and Manhattan: about 10 minutes east of Grand Central. So close, in fact, I usually go home for lunch, and I work on 3rd avenue.
Definitely let me know and I'll give you a grand tour of all the non-touristy spots!
thanks for the defence, guys :) twats actually get me down a lot.
yes, mo is fantastic! easily one of th coolest bloggers i have encountered.
"What bothers me about fasting as well, is that it's always associated with a sense of futility for me."
I've been feeling this way the last couple of years. All this fasting when I've got such major issues with the religion. But still, I can't but not fast. It's the one thing I just can't get myself to do. Too ingrained in me.
There's a big cultural component to fasting, GC. I don't live in Egypt and fasting represents a link to the old country, I'm just not ready to relinquish.
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