Lessons of fasting

The fast is almost done and given the short time till Yom Kippur I think it was a good experience, including from the point of view of what should be corrected for being able to resist for 25 hours (this time).

Here are a couple of considerations of my lessons learned:

- Be sure that one night/day before you drink enough liquids. Deshidratation could create serious and annoying problems, including nasty migraines.

- Fresh juices and vegetables are a good preparation as rich in vitamins.

- Try to avoid as much as possible going out and sleep as much as possible. (Something I didn't hence my feeling of a lonely zombie.)

- Spend as much time as possible with people fasting. Staying alone could push you to find 1000+ reasons to give up.

The experience in itself could be very bad: beyond the feeling of physical weakness, your whole body is against the shortages. You feel sad, at the limit of depression, in the impossibility to think coherently and with sense. Is not easy and sometimes you feel that the whole world is against you. From the deep ends of your desperation, you need to swim back to the real life and to survive your new beginnings. You are disoriented by the perfect silence to your questions and you almost lost the sense of the right direction. But if you look correctly, you will see the light and you are saved. Five more days for teshuva and reflection.