I want to follow my traditions.

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Registered: 10-19-2002
I want to follow my traditions.
Mon, 06-25-2007 - 12:58pm

My main purpose is to be a good Muslim and for that reason i have accepted all those sacrifices, in that i took after my mother that i consider like an example for me because she is completely devout to her duties toward the family. It takes much faith to accept all that. I think that everything i sacrifice in my wordly life will be rewarded in the hereafter. I must say that i’m relatively lucky compared to other women because i had the possibility to study and work following my turn. I think to women that are in very worse conditions and i often i pray for them. A bright side of being veiled is that we can get old with serenity, we haven’t the worry to face the consequences of the passing of time like wrinkles and gray hair, i have a colleague little older than me that is turning white-haired but she don’t care about it. I too look older because i have already some wrinkles, with this climate growing old is more quick. About your culture i share different points of view but i would be unconfortable with some excess, in any case even here some girls took some unespected freedom. When I was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s all women were wounded of black and faceless but now there is more opening. I pant to more freedom but inside my culture, when i know about women forced to prostitute themselves or drug addicted i see the burqa like a shelter.
Under the veil i wear jeans or long skirts but of course i’m free from the worry to appear at all costs and as far as concerned the heat when i can i try to stay in the shade or in air-conditioned rooms, of course i can’t go naked under the burqa that allows little air in it but i don’t think even to lift it for fear that someone could see my face and in general to commit a rude action. I hope only to not feel suddenly faint when i��m shrouded, it could be very awful.
Aisha