Eid Mubarok, the Athmosphere

Happy Eid Mubarok 1431H friends♥
Let me ask for your forgiveness :)

Eid Mubarok had been an own culture here in Indonesia. People got home to their homelands in great numbers, to see their family, to visit each other and ask for their forgiveness. The sense of kinship in this moment is really huge. Every one willing to go to their homeland eventhough they have to be in lots of traffic, being in a crowded transportation, and quque for a long time.

This moment is a massive moment, which means every single moslem person celebrate this moment, no matter who she/he is. Somehow for under previleged people, they willing to fight with their life to get to their homeland in a low cost. For many of us, this is the only moment when we can spend time with big family together. We used to spent the days in Granny's house by yelled Takbir in the night, did Eid Pray in the morning, spent the rest of the day to visit each other and ask for their forgiveness, then with delicious foods, with the rest of big family member, we celebrate the victory day from the Ramadhan month. Here, the sense of togetherness does really exquisite :)

But how about them who was in a coutry who didn't celebrate eid mubarok?

Once when I was little, I spent my Eid Day in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The atmosphere of Eid Mubarok there was so different than here. If we spent the day with joy and togetherness here, there, all you can find was only silence, just like another usual day. Because I was winter that time, not much people went around outside. The sense of Eid Mubarok doesn't felt at all. Thank God, we still had an embassy out there, which can provide us who wanted to do Eid Pray. When the Indonesian gathered in one place, the sense of Eid begun to felt. We started to ask each other forgiveness, chatter, and eat some delicious food. Seems like a moment that were celebrated in the middle of the routinity there. After that we came back to our activity, just like usual.

no atmosphere of Eid Mubarok, only silence

We should be grateful can celebrate Eid Mubarok here, where it already become a culture to spend it with family, to spent it with joy and togetherness :)
Some other who have to be out there cannot feel the same thing with us, cannot be as luck as us

be grateful, and don't waste your time with your family, celebrate this moment♥

happy eid mubarok :)