It has been a little while since my last entry and a lot has happened. The wonderful and glorious month of Ramadan has come and past, the days of Eid ul Fitr have just ended, and life begins to get hectic.

Ramadan is always one of the best times of the year for the Muslim community because everyone seems to be high on life and high on spirituality. As for myself I tried this Ramadan to get connected to a Masjid again while also incorporating my tradition of the past few years of visiting other Masaajid and people. I also worked on my Quran and Hifz along with some exceptional reading on The Duties of Brotherhood by Imam Ghazali and Islamic Movement: Prerequisites for Success by Maulana Mawdudi. But for myself and many other students Ramadan brings the challenge of preparing a balancing act and juggling school with all the opportunities that lie in the month. This is indeed one of the most difficult things to do especially for college students. This year it was tough indeed as many other years but alhamdulilah I survived.

Of course after Ramadan comes Eid ul Fitr, the holiday where Muslim can come together and show their sense of community and celebrate together as one, NOT! This Eid ul Fitr was different from the rest; normally all the Masaajid, with the exception of a few mulish ones, gets together at a beautiful park and celebrates together in unity. This year the committees that usually do the planning did not come through for the Muslim community and this sparked a lot of questions. We were fed many excuses as to why the celebration could not be at the park in unity this year, but we all know the lack of planning and determination were the causes. InshaAllah next year the youth can take up this challenge and show the community how we do things. The youth are the future and we can make things happen if given the opportunity, Allah knows best. Anyhow, my family still managed to organize a small picnic of families at the park to try and salvage the day. Alhamdulilah it still turned out to be a good Eid.

Now that Eid has passed, it is time to get caught up from Ramadan, school wise. I have so much to do in a short period of time. Midterms are creeping up and project deadlines are approaching fast. I have this school load, along with my Islamic work load, and of course my Silent K load, which I will let you in on in the next entry hopefully. I think this entry is long enough as it is so I will cut it here. Be easy and keep struggling as success is in reach.

Another school term has started here in beautiful Fort Lauderdale and I am excited to start off fresh at Florida Atlantic University. Being a transfer student and coming in with two years of course work complete and two more to go, I am suddenly enjoying it more. As I go to and from my classes on campus I start to notice something special and interesting...people. I start to see there attitudes, their behavior, their persistence, their patience, their drive, their devotion, their weaknesses. I looked at them and I looked at myself and I noticed majority of us were struggling and always seemed to be upset at something. Very few were actually enjoying the beauties of life. These few were facing the same difficulties as the others, but they seemed happier and in turn were able to manage everything better. After seeing this I tried to pick up their attitude of being high on life and have adopted it as my saying. Now I feel I am enjoying the precious moments given to me by staying active and positive. The key to success is about feeding yourself positive thinking and truly believing you can accomplish your goals. If we have the right attitude then we can do so much more. So I say to you as I have said to my self: GET HIGH...ON LIFE!

Dare I start an online journal/blog. I have always wanted to but it didn’t seem right to just let my business out there like that. I guess my views have changed since I realized that you don’t have to write all of your business and put it out there...just some of it. You can even put it out there anonymously. Interestingly enough, I realized many people I know have blogs. Some are good and some are not so good, but I see that it is a good way to work on your writing skills and communication skills. Maybe I think its time I get a blog. I pondered the idea of maybe doing a video blog, but that is too much work. So I think I will officially start off with this entry being my first blog entry. I haven’t even set up a blog spot yet and I am already writing. Right now I am in Microsoft word typing this blog with no where on the net to put it...yet. So give me a little minute so I can find a good blog site and post this entry as the official first post of my blog. Cool I got a blog. Yay!