A sore throat and aches all over made fasting a bad idea. This period is not meant as a punishment or something to harm a person, which is great, and there are some exemptions for people who fast and being sick is one of them. Being pregnant or when travelling for extended periods of time are also exempt.
When I woke up in the morning and realized how I felt I was kind of bummed to be honest. The whole point of me writing about my fasting is to deal with its challenges.
A funny thing happened today too. My co-workers and I had a lunch together and a friend I know who follows the blog, saw me. I thought it was pretty funny me eating and all, considering he knows I'm fasting. I actually laughed inside because that is one of the reasons I write this blog, to keep me in check. It was a good moment for me. I did give my friend a brief explanation of why I wasn't fasting though, just so he knew what was going on.
If I wasn't sick though I fully intended to go to this lunch but would not eat. Things just didn't work out that way for me today. So I'm going to drink a bunch of water tonight and get some good sleep and hope tomorrow I will again partake of the physical fast.
So all I was left with today was the spiritual aspect. You know what, it's a lot harder to change oneself, especially when it comes to your passions. A quote by Abdu'l-Baha says it best:
For this physical fasting is a symbol of the spiritual fasting, that is, abstaining from all carnal desires, becoming characterized with the attributes of the spiritual ones, attracted to the heavenly fragrances and enkindled with the fire of the love of God.
That's the trick really. Abstaining from food is a practice that helps one with other aspects. This is something I need to work on.
Today I struggled for inspiration in things I saw. I try to shoot with no flash for these 19 days but nothing was working for me. But falling snow and taking an idea from something a friend and I did a few months ago, I came up with this image. What fun.
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