People have been reminiscing a lot about 2016 so naturally it was only a matter of time before we started looking back on Ramadan 2016.
And the way some of you are talking about it like it was the war 🤣 is sending me but dear lord we were in the trenches.
Summer rozze are not for the weak man.
I’m British yeah so we’d be closing our fasts at around 02:50 and then open it at around 21:30. By the time you ate, prayed tawarweeh it was about time to come back and do it again.
In comparison today it closed at 05:34 and opened at 17:35. You can really take your time to eat and do what you gotta do.
And it wasn’t just that year either like the year after had the added bonus of it being smack dab in the middle of exam season.
I was doing my GCSE’s and the lord was clearly with us because I don’t even know how on earth we managed that. Used to just stay up till it closed to get some extra revision in and get into the exam hall absolutely shattered.
But it was a blessing too you know cause it was like oh our exams are in this most blessed of months so now we’ve definitely got this.
It was insane though like my last exam was on Eid day.
Imagine that imagine coming to school to do a 2 hour exam and then legging it back home to change and go celebrate. And our lot were so pissed about it because we were like oh they wouldn’t do that for Christmas now would they.
Which obviously we get why but also we were teenagers so we were annoyed.
God we used to have to beg to get the day off for Eid back then. You used to just have to make an excuse to pull your kid out for school and it’d be marked as an absence.
They wouldn’t let you take the day off for Eid you had to lie about them being ill or something.
And then by the time I got to secondary (11-16) you’re parents had to sign a permission slip to say which day you wouldn’t be coming in.
Which was better but then you had all the other kids complaining and giving us shit for it.
They even got mad like oh well you take Christmas off too so why can’t we like bruh…as you can see some things haven’t changed.
And then I guess the complaints were heard because they made it so both possible Eid days were just a bank holiday for everyone.
Though I will never forgive my school for that one year they made us do a mini activities day (or sports day) where we were out in the summer heat running about and that while fasting.
That was just cruel I know so many kids broke their fast to have water because they just couldn’t do it. And all of our teachers were just watching us being amused by it…it was so weird.
I didn’t I was so mad I was like no, no I’m not doing anything I won’t even run. I don’t care how much trouble I get into I’m not giving you guys the satisfaction.
I swear down I went home after and just laid in a corner under a fan. And I’m like if they did that now they’d be in so much trouble like you couldn’t do that shit today.
So yeah Ramadan back then was difficult but honestly I think it was mostly because everyone else was trying to make it 10 times harder for us.
And jokes on them because we made it.
