why do I fast on tuesdays?

This was the question asked to me by one of my colleagues. I thought it would be wise to write a blog and share my views on fasting to a wider audience, ha, ha, ha! But before I elaborate on reasons for my keeping fast on Tuesdays, I would like to give you a glimpse of my esteemed colleague, who asked me this wise question.

She is an antithesis to fasting. In fact, even hearing the word "fast" makes her hungry. She eats anything and everything. These days she eats a mysterious seed-like thing, which comes out from and anar dana like bottle. God knows what that seed is. If that is for digestion, then she needs that more than any one on this solar system. Why??? Because, her eating session starts from 9 :30 in the morning and ends at 6 in the evening. She eats paranthas, seeds, sabzis, rotis, chawals, and even pen. Yes, she is the serial killer of all the pen that comes in her vicinity. The back of the pen is chewed continuously with such precision that nothing is left of that. Sometimes, ink from the pen finds its way out in to her mouth.

Yes sir! She is the best person to ask the question. Recently, UN has contacted her to for becoming the brand ambassador of 'how to eat and what to eat and why to eat and when to eat'. (God save me!!!!)
Now the reason for my fasting on Tuesdays:

1. I fast on Tuesdays because it gives me an opportunity of not seeing something that I have been seeing for my entire life; the food. Next day, I am fresh to eating.
2. I fast because it cleanses my body of all the toxins that keep accumulating for all the week.
3. I fast because I believe in the strength of hanuman ji. He is the only god that could give us the strength to fight against the odds that we face in our life. And Tuesday is his day.
4. I fast because it saves food.
   
5. I fast because it gives me the opportunity to understand the pain of hunger, the pain of not eating.

All these reasons may sound old, cliched and boring but they are true and written from the heart; not from the stomach.

Cheers
Kundan