Saturday, December 22, 2012

#Pray

I suppose this ought to be contextualized, given it's cultural significance.  But South Asian Islamic folks, especially of older generations, send a different kind of email than I do - that is, than your average Western 20-year old does.  There are no exclamations, and no lols, but instead there are the words "blessings" and "prayers."  So when my father tells me to help him out with a technical issue - like how to compress and attach some home videos from a family trip to Bangladesh, so that we can send them to one of my father's nephews - I suddenly find myself typing up an email to said nephew, in said South Asian Islamic rhetoric.  My dad says, "oh yeah, and mention how're your doing too.  Ask for prayers."

So I write:

"Sruti is doing well, she has recently graduated university.

Pray for her."

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