#eid saeed

" Wishing you goodness and well-being every year "

(Eid is still tomorrow Wednesday April 9th, but we love sending Eid wishes before it arrives)

May Allah accept from us the good we have put forth and forgive our mistakes. May we continue with the sunnahs we adopted in Ramadān and carry them forward throught th year 🤍

May all your prayers and duaas be accepted inshallah! and may your days be filled with blessings and happiness 🌹

Eid was very different this year, with the flashbacks from the disaster that just hit my city, with the collective trauma of a global pandemic, with indifferent university piling on assignments during a pandemic and Eid. In spite of the lockdown being lifted here, we continued our nearly 3 month long social distancing and didn't go out to meet anyone this Eid, which was really saddening but a necessary step. It has not been an easy year to process. I felt grateful to unwind and spend time in solitude to process some co-morbid mental health issues of mine and recharge myself. But the growing desensitization of social institutions towards mental health and collective trauma horrified me to the core. Throughout Eid, I didn't know what to feel. Should I continue mourning as a citizen or do I deserve to cope with the grief by dressing up and cooking for my loved ones. Eventually I gave in, and chose the latter. I dressed up in orange, threw on some makeup which was very therapeutic . I cooked rabri kheer for my grandparents and chocolate chunk cookies for my distant cousins and siblings. Sometimes, all you can do to stop the overwhelming thoughts, is to process them, feel the emotions and grief and turn towards healthy coping mechanisms when you feel it's the right time.