11 Ramadhan, 1446
I'm very prone to lose sight of the fact that the fast is not just about abstaining from food and drink. There's much else to exercise restraint over, especially in terms of excessive emotion. Given the peculiarities of my character that involves taking care not to get unreasonably angry.
Fortunately the natural process of aging has served to calm my propensity to explosive outbursts of rage. But I'm aware of a kind of low-lying irritability over the more debilitatingly foolish aspects of my life, especially in relation to the toad, Work. The value of fasting in relation to this problematic feature of my character is that I'm forced to keep things in proportion, and avoid harping upon the silliness-cum-unfairness of it all. Indeed, I have no choice but to laugh it all off, which brings considerable ease.
Sometimes you need to do something radical simply to achieve equilibrium.
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