She went to a party, met her childhood friends and smiled at how this ironic life sent each of them on a separate route. She usually found some good excuse to find a way out of parties, but this time she had to go. With her hijab on for 5 years now, she felt so out of place at parties ; she was either the only muhajaba around or one of a minority.
This party was very fancy, everything was set right, and she had tons of fun meeting those friends of her. But it brought back memories of her party days, which she has been missing for sometime now. She was also thinking of him, how wonderful it would have been had he been there with her, but, you don't always get what you want, and life goes on.
She goes home wondering what life would have been like if she hadn't had her hijab on, would her character have differed? Would she have had the same job? the same friends now? the same taste in clothes? music? men? will she have loved him?
She takes off her hijab, and her long dress, but keeps her high heels on. She opens her wardrobe and takes out a skimpy dress, which she owned 5 years ago (which has been a total knock out in the past, but is way beyond unfashionable now), lets her hair down, and puts on a pair of chandelier earrings. She looks at the mirror, not familiar with the person she sees looking back at her. She looks again and wonders; will he love her if she looked like that?
She takes off the dress, the earring and the shoes, puts on her baggy pants pajamas, with the hoodie top, braids her hair and goes back to bed. She thinks of him but smiles to herself : at least I got the body to pull it off if I need to.
This party was very fancy, everything was set right, and she had tons of fun meeting those friends of her. But it brought back memories of her party days, which she has been missing for sometime now. She was also thinking of him, how wonderful it would have been had he been there with her, but, you don't always get what you want, and life goes on.
She goes home wondering what life would have been like if she hadn't had her hijab on, would her character have differed? Would she have had the same job? the same friends now? the same taste in clothes? music? men? will she have loved him?
She takes off her hijab, and her long dress, but keeps her high heels on. She opens her wardrobe and takes out a skimpy dress, which she owned 5 years ago (which has been a total knock out in the past, but is way beyond unfashionable now), lets her hair down, and puts on a pair of chandelier earrings. She looks at the mirror, not familiar with the person she sees looking back at her. She looks again and wonders; will he love her if she looked like that?
She takes off the dress, the earring and the shoes, puts on her baggy pants pajamas, with the hoodie top, braids her hair and goes back to bed. She thinks of him but smiles to herself : at least I got the body to pull it off if I need to.
Comments
Would she have been a different person? Or more to the point, a "worse" person?
If not, then what's the point?
I'll keep my views on the subject for myself.
And I loved the comment by Hidaya...