Week 4, Yom Kippur Experience
Yom Kippur is an amazing holiday. It’s about forgiveness and the start of a new slate, but there’s one crazy part. Fasting! Every year I can’t last the whole fast, but this year was my year. I’m sixteen already so I knew I had to get over this fear of fasting.
The first few hours were already hard because usually at midnight I eat ice cream and ice chips. Then came the hardest part… I had to go to bed hungry. It took me all the way till three in the morning to fall asleep, but little did I know the night/morning wasn’t over. I always wake up at six in the morning for literally no reason, and it’s so weird. When I woke up though I was ravenous! It took me half an hour to fall back asleep.
Finally, it was time to start my day of starvation. I woke up fully around ten and my head was throbbing. Along with my head, my stomach could have been mistaken for a whale. Overall, the day was hard. All I really did was watch youtube and netflix all the way till six. At six my mom, sister, and I finally got up to get ready to go to my aunt’s house to break fast. It was probably the best meal I’ve ever tasted! I had a bagel with tuna and egg salad, but the best part was the brownies afterwards.
That pretty much sums up my fasting experience, and luckily, I still have a full year till the next one.
I absolutely hate fasting, especially when you go to shul because all you can think about is how hungry you are. I remember my first time doing the full fast, it was hell on earth ahahaha. But now that you've done, it should get a little bit easier each year. Good job!
ReplyDeleteHi Aly! Fasting is not for me, I really try, but I only make it until about 8am. Maybe next year I will take on the challenge you did, but I have to really push myself. I am proud of you though, fasting is so incredibly hard.
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