Alhamdulillah, I feel so blessed today.

I pray this will be a wonderful start to many more blessings ahead this Ramadhan.

It's rainy, weather's just nice & things are just falling into place this morning (just when I thought they weren't. That's why, never underestimate what lies ahead).

I'm on course today & yesterday. Let's just say I've never stayed more awake in any course than in yesterday's. Let me share a story with you. The story of a bag of potatoes.

Once, there was a teacher who got her students to bring some potatoes to school. Each potato represented how much you hate someone. So those kids brought potatoes in varying amounts - some brought 1, some brought 2, some brought 5, some brought 10...okay you get the idea.

The teacher told them to carry the bag of potatoes everyday for a whole week. At first the kids were happy & excited, telling each other that they have more potatoes, which they can use to hit the pple they didn't like.

But after a few days, the potatoes became rotten & got quite heavy & the kids began to dread carrying the potatoes.

I'm sure you smart pple can guess the moral of the story. I can't be too sure, but I believe many of us do bear grudges & carry some hatred towards others inside of us. But if we go on carrying them for long, they'll grow heavy on us & will affect us quite a lot.

Since this is Ramadhan, what better time can there be to let go of our potatoes, most of them quite rotten by now already. Start with a clean slate....I'm sure we'll feel lighter - free from all ill-feelings.

Like they say, to err is human, to forgive is divine.

Salam Ramadhan to Herda, Fiz, Kak Yati, Tea, Mahd & Esra, and other blog lurkers to me :)