My First Eid
It was my first Eid that I am far from home and away from family’s warm hug. Although I am happy and satisfied here at AUW, I wanted to be with my family members;
With my Granpa,Grandma,Father,Mother,Uncles,Uncle’s wives and my two sweet brothers and six sisters.
I want to say Eid Mubarak to them from a far distance but with the nearest hearth full of love .
Meditation
MEDITATION is called for a deep thinking. It has a common concept among various religions and is well known for numerous prayers around the world and the ones who want to have a deep quest on universe and human’s life. In simple words it is a journey through one’s mind and transferring human in a connecting state with universe, God and some special or hidden spiritual worlds.
At my first time I couldn’t shake the combination of fascination and amazing that I had at Gym class. After we had exercises, all sat on ground and closed our eyes while two thumbs were touched on each other in a point. It was my first time that I was hearing about that and performing like that.
At third day of Fall Break, I received an email from my Grammar Instructor, Miss Diana Davies. The message was this:-
Dear students,
I’m pleased to discover that the Office of Student Affairs has planned several activities and outings for you guys. That’s great! Please attend as many as you can. I hope to add a few optional things to do if you’re interested. At first I want to inform you about a special program, if I can find candles to buy, I’d love to have a morning meditationtime for those who are interested. This would be an inter-faith activity–just a practice of purity, mindfulness, and peacefulness. A good day for this might be Monday, Sep. 21 as it is the International Day of Peace. I think after that would be a nice time to have a free-form art activity. I have a few art supplies like pastels and colored pencils–the roof of 20A seems to be a nice place for something like that. The meditation room looks small.
Good night!
Ms. Diana
This message brought incredible joy and hope for me. Because, I am really interested in having such opportunity for being alone with my own thoughts and feelings even though for a while.
Finally, at 7:00 A.M I found myself at roof top while was sat, traveling through my universe. My eyes were focused on a candle and the wind was blowing softly. We were four students from Afghanistan, Nepal, Sirilanka, Vietnam and our instructor Ms.Diana from U.S.A. She congratulated the two special anniversaries that we had yesterday. The first Muslim Eid and another Peace Day. She passed us peace cards, impressive postcards and blank papers to paint on them with the colors that we want and to draw our thought.
I draw and paint a simple view of my sense, combination of warm and a little cold color.
The weather was rainy; it was raining a lot with the high speed that’s why, there was one feet water on the ground. I run at roof and looked at sky while it was raining faster and faster. I stand there until raining stopped and that was my second meditation.
And…..
It was my first Eid day that I celebrated as I desired for.
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