Looking out for fellow humans, whoever they are and whatever they believe, is the right thing to do

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DietrichBuxtehude on May 14th, 2020 at 21:48 UTC »

On the other side, I have a devout Muslim piano student from Pakistan whose father gives me very generous Christmas gifts (I'm a church organist, so he knows it's part of my faith) and has invited my family and I to celebrate a Ramadan feast annually. They are lovely people in every metric.

What could the world even be like if people of faith used religion as a means to celebrate each other rather than maintain our divisions?

Sorry. I know I'm rambling and sounding a bit obtuse. I'll try to only use my soapbox for soap from here on out.

10A_86 on May 14th, 2020 at 22:16 UTC »

Our neighbors are fasting at the moment. During isolation we have developed a tradition of trading food. It's simple things like waiting until its almost sunset to take my food over. A) to aknowledge their sacrifice at this time. B) to not be tempting them with the smells of food. C) knowing they look forward breaking fast.

These are simple non important things to some. But my neighbors are lovely people and being considerate of them is the least I can do.

Furmidable on May 14th, 2020 at 23:07 UTC »

Those teachers sound amazing ! I missed out on a lot of school trips because of that (one teacher told me to "just deal with it" and that I can wait a "normal time" to eat, I'm not sure if she understood that I could eat from 21:30 to 5:00)

However, another one of my teachers prepared some snacks and games for our last school day and we she realised that I was fasting, she left the room and came back with some tupperware and packed me a ton of stuff. I really liked that teacher.

Another time a teacher brought some sweets (again end of school year) and she went around the classroom to give everyone a few. When she arrived, I declined politely since I knew that most of those contained pork gelatine and I could therefore not eat them (though I didn't tell her that). A classmate told her that I couldn't eat pork gelatine and she went throught the bag of sweets to get me the ones that I could eat.

The following year, when we had a huge heatwave during Ramadan, my French teacher kept checking up on me and encouraging me. It really made me happy :)