I wanted to keep a day to day diary, noting down my umrah reflections / feelings / thoughts. As soon as my parents and I landed, I very quickly realised that there is no beginning or end to a ‘day’, especially as what we came to perform began at ‘night’ or in the early hours of our ‘morning’. The way in which my regular routine life consisting of things you’d think were for survival, like that of sleeping, eating, relieving oneself – was stripped away within a blink of an eye.
