assalamu alaikum,
So, Native Deen had a concert here in Conservopolis. I've had several chances to see them in concert, and while the concerts are enjoyable, they don't like knock me out blow me over, or anything like that. More, things for introspections (like the slow songs 'Life Worth' and 'Zabaluni') or the MuslimPower-type songs ( M-U-S-L-I-M and Niyya). Don't quote me on the titles of those songs. I'm slightly ashamed to admit I"m something of a fair-weather fan, especially since I have no more CD player and an IPod is way out of my reach. They're good, clean fun. At the last MYNA camp I got to meet Br. Joshua. Dude is intense. I loved the music they made at the raps workshop though, so inshaAllah I'll be doing that this summer.
This particular concert was part of a MAS regional conference. I declare, my life is a regular social calendar these days. I don't go one weekend without doing something these days. You know you've arrived when you walk into a room and your name rings out of the hush. Alhamdulillah my students find something in me to love. I feel better, too Alhamdulillah. I guess I may really have to relocate in the next decade or so to an island. Someplace winter never goes.
Anyway. The music is so infectious that kids were dancing in the aisles. Quite a few of my little students were having a good time. Wiggling their little bodies. Grabbing hands with their friends and twirling in circles.
Then I saw four girls grab hands. Two of them let go. Pushed the last girl out and kept dancing and twirling. Wouldn't let her back in when she tried to grip into the circle.
They're all of four years old.
I hate girls, I really do sometimes.
peace
TwennyTwo
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As-Salaamu 'alaikum,
ReplyDeleteNot that I'm all that experienced, but it sounds like stuff my sister told us of when she was at school.
Perhaps you should have separated the girls and told them to sit down, just to let it be known that this sort of cruelty won't be tolerated.
Wa alaikum Salaam, Br. Yusuf,
ReplyDeleteI think if we'd've been anywhere else but the middle of a concert, I would have. I do that in my classroom all the time.
It was just sickening.
I don't know where these girls get this clique-ishness at four years old!! It was a prime example of why my best friends were boys for years. I'm with Safiyyah- they're just easier.
peace
TwennyTwo