Lost in thought as you walk home, you reflect about the day you’ve had. It’s not been a good day so your thoughts lead you to think about all the other problems in your life, all the past and current dilemmas, all the current hardships you are facing and the old wounds that are yet to heal.  The same thoughts go round and round in your mind and you start to feel a little sad.

From sadness to anguish to wallowing in misery, you can feel yourself about to be engulfed, completely consumed and being pulled towards this pit hole of pain, agony and depression.

And then you look up.  And you see a man smiling into his phone as he walks.  A phone he holds with the stubs of his arms because this man has no hands.

Walking along a busy east London road is weird and wacky on any normal day, but combine that with the limited edition of the British summer and it’s a concoction that will leave the mind wondering is the hat on too tight? Or perhaps they’ve had too much exposure to the sun!!

With the breaking of dawn out comes the sunshine and along with that on these hot summer days we get the ‘kitted’ up cars (more like sight for sore eyes!) with the windows rolled down and a group of young or the wannabe young with their shades on proud and their hair gelled back.
 
You have to grit your teeth as the ‘Shakespeare’ pours out of their mouth onto the poor passers by and then you think to yourself ya Allah is it due to the sun?

For our ‘budding poets’ you think nah it’s not the case because come rain or shine the ‘poetic lingo’ never strays from their lips. Hmmm perhaps ‘Shakespeare’ was their all time favourite!

Assalamu Alaikum,

I would like to convey my sincerest thanks to you and the Easytalk team for your support and contribution to Gaza 100 – World Record Run. Your support was instrumental in making the event a huge success.

We set a new world record of 1675 participants and have so far raised near £60 000 for Save the Children’s Gaza Appeal. I hope we can work together on projects in the future. We have a couple more world records we are finalising details for, so will  be in touch.

Best regards, 

Ruhul Tarafder
Communications Manager

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