I'm Thankful

^{This photo I took at around 8am and BW version here if you are curious}

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I just had my first ( official) day fasting yesterday. In other post, I mentioned that there is a meal before people fast called “Suhoor” and I supposed to have it around 4am, but I couldn’t because…it’s 4am. But my wife explained I can just have it before I slept and not necessarily at 4am.

So I started my day at work with a empty stomach, it was a little dizzy, and I had headache but it’s totally normal. After sometimes I will be ok and 30 days fasting will be really fast as I was told.
It’s a day that I felt extremely thankful to all people surrounding me. A little tough to work while I am not allowed to eat or drink anything. My colleagues kept asking me to take a rest, and help to do tasks. Manager was always reminding me how many hours left to go home, probably he will shift me to evening shift which around breaking the fast time.

Parents in Morocco knew it’s my first time ( it’s not the first time because I gave it a try last years ) so they encourage me a lot to be strong and everything will be fine.

To break the fast, there is a meal called Iftar this is the time people allowed to eat. And every families cook special Ramadan meal for members, so did my wife. She prepared a proper Moroccan style Iftar with juice, egg ( with special spices from her country), a dish called something in Moroccan that I can’t even understand but it means “oven-baked chicken” lol and a-must harira soup, of course with some dates.

The Iftar usually start with eating the dates, you can only eat 1,3 or 5 dates not 2,4 because as explained that’s their thousands-year tradition with some mysterious benefits. Then the course next to juice, and special eggs, the chicken ( with bread) and last but not least, the harira soup.

^{It’s so so so so….delicous! We ate until we couldn’t move and imagine that whenever I opened my mouth to talk there is food still in my mouth. Because I’m stuffed. What left in my mind was what my wife told me “ So imagine people living without food, especially they are fasting too, so we should feel blessed for this”}

Also, I am really thankful to @dynamicgreentk and @gimba for your spiritual encouragements. Especially @dynamicgreentk broungt my story to Pimp your post Thursday so my story can be heard and supported.

By the way, it was my first time I’ve attent the talkshow and even I kept silience but it’s really amazing opportunity to get a chance to show your stories to people on Steemit and listen to other’s stories too, to know why they are interested in something specifically. I’m kinda speechless to talk about it because my limited English, but it would be great if you also would like to check it out by joining Steemit Ramble Discord: https://discord.gg/mCRaWg Thank you for having me Steemit Ramble !

That’s how my day went thought, a little tough, but full of rewards at the end of the day. I’m thankful to be surrounded by amazing people, not only from family but also from work-mates to Steemates.

Thanks for reading down here, I give you harira soup as a reward:

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