Fasting : Not just hold hungry and thirsty, but training your soul and mindset.

Hello fellow steemians..

Fasting for Muslims is an obligation that must be carried out seriously, except for being sick, long trip reason and still a child, there is no reason to relief from fasting. Fasting is not only done by Muslims, the other religions also do fasting, why they must hold their desires and hold their needs for something permissible. Eating is permissible, drinking as well and having sex with wife is allowed. But can someone be able to resist that desire? And for what?

There are so many goals of fasting carried out by various religious followers. One of the goals of Fasting is the process of training ourselves to be able to control our desires, for 11 months we live in fulfilling of desires, we work to earn money, we do business to become rich, we eat as we like without anyone being able to forbid. But in our condition when we cannot fulfil our hopes and desires, sometimes when that desire is not realized, the frustrated and angry and appear in our attitudes and actions.

We must realize that not everything we want must be realized, right? Then the demand to understand the situation must be trained so that you can deal with it. One of them is by fasting and the process starts with not being allowed to do things that have been allowed so far. Some people consider this to be a futile act if seen from the point of view of desire, but notice people who are undergoing fasting around you, they will be more calm than usual, they will be more positive than before, and they look simpler than usual.

So, fasting is not only an obligation of religious orders but this is a medium for exercising body abilities and mindset in seeing the phenomena of egoism, materialism and human hedonism from a long time ago. Fasting will form a personality so as not to put personal interests first and prioritize life. Fasting also trains you so that you don't waste with all the wealth you have.

One of the positive things I do today is to try to think about how much nature has taught us about natural beauty. Even though I was fasting, when I felt the clock move slowly because there was no activity of eating and drinking as usual, I tried to fill it by perpetuating the beauty of the beach. Hopefully there are many other positive activities that I can do in this fasting month. Do you get interesting photos today @tomhall @slowwalker @introvert-dime @oldstone @oldtimer?

How do you think about my photography and my original words @khanza.aulia @altooq @cityofstars ? Would you like to share me how are people fasting in your place @cybrrn @acidyo @muratbesiroglu @chorock @r2cornell @paulag @wolfhart?

My best regard :)

@khaimi

All picture in this post original by me @khaimi, location : Paro Beach, Aceh Besar, Indonesia.