The Calm Before the Storm

Salams

I have a quite a few things to say..I hope I remember them all.

I have been away for most of Sha'ban, helping family. I feel closer to them, and am glad I went. We came home 2 days before the month of Ramadhan started, so we were quite lucky in that as well. I have been reflecting quite a bit, and have been blessed in that I don't have to start university yet.

Anyway, that's by way of introduction. I came across this thread on ShiaChat. What do you want to have done by 30? I gave my top 5 goals there, and here they are again:

Hajj

All Ziyarats

Learn Arabic + Farsi

Read about 500- 1000 books on just about everything (more if I can)

Marriage + children

As an aside, these goals would be the same for age 25. Another aside, the time is perfect..10 years is a nice round number to be dealing with. Which got me thinking about my goals for the next year. An on-the-spot list would be:

Secure a TC

Exceptional grades in this year's exams

Manage money issues

Certain spiritual targets.

Marriage (tentative)

Al-Asr 2009 (tentative)

Driving

Looks quite small. I'm quite surprised myself as I write this...I though that the list for this year would be bigger. Maybe I'm forgetting stuff, in which case I will add some later. (In case I change it later, first time round, I could only think the top four items.)

Anyway, this brings me round to my conclusion. Tonight is the 21st of the month of Ramadhan, and I start university tomorrow. Hence the title for this post, the calm before the storm. I have a few precious hours of solitude left, before I hit the ground running at university, and am glad for the chance to have been able to reflect before it all started.

WS

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