With Eid here, we are still finding it extremely hard to kick away some things that we have gotten used to during Ramadan. Because we feel your pain, here is a list of such things.
1 – Eating a meal at 2 am
The holy month has made us think it is totally okay to stuff our faces with food at 2 am, and this habit is not going away. Indeed, our biological clocks just seem to love our midnight snacks – or should we say meals – and we really want to get rid of this unhealthy habit. We find ourselves itching for a meal – not just a light snack – right during what used to be sohoor time.
2 – Our Ramadan sleeping hours are unacceptable
We feel as if we had traveled to a land called Ramadan, and we have come back extremely jet lagged from our trip. Our sleeping schedules do not involve going to bed by 1 am maximum, rather they involve staying up till 4 am. Looks like our bodies still think we are in Ramadan.
3 – Our Ramadan work schedules are no more
We are sitting here enjoying our Eid vacation, and a thought is haunting us in the back of our minds: eventually we will go back to our jobs, and resume working during regular work hours. No more five hour work days, and we really can’t think of anything that will help us accept this.
4 – It’s no longer completely okay to eat like a whale
While in Ramadan we could eat like pregnant whales, and feel no shame because every other person was doing so, and ‘oh well, it is Ramadan anyways’, this is no longer okay. This is especially true considering that summer is upon us, and swim suit season is here.
5 – Karkadeh is no longer a socially acceptable drink
We all love karakdeh, unfortunately, it just seems to disappear after Ramadan. This is extremely unfair for those of us who are addicted to karkadeh, and who love binge drinking it during Ramadan.
6 – “7ader ha3melha ba3d el fitar” (“okay, ill do it after iftar”) is no longer a legitimate excuse
We need to accept the fact that everything can’t just be postponed to some indefinite time. We must kill the procrastinators in us who have relished in Ramadan’s generally unproductive and lazy spirit.
7 – Our outings can no longer end at 4 am
This one is for those who have strict parents and/or curfews, this up and out till 4 am glory has ended. It is time you get back to you 10 pm curfew.
8 – What’s a gym though?
Some of us low – key, or not so low – key, loved the fact that Ramadan’s gatherings, traffic jams, and specified meal times meant that we had a legitimate excuse to not hit the gym. Sadly, these excuses no longer exist, and we can only point to our own laziness if we chose not to gym.