I don't think enough people talk openly about how DIFFICULT it is being born a Muslim into a non-practicing Muslim family. Waking up for Sehri alone, praying alone, cooking Iftaar for one, eating alone. (1)

When you're from a practicing family, the support system is always there when you pray, when you fast, when you wake up for Sehri, it's not just you. Being from a non-practicing family, you feel like a revert in your own home (2)

Being the only one who fasts and prays and TRIES during Ramadan, it's very very easy to lose the motivation to carry on. Seeing everyone else eat at 7pm and you're still cooking for yourself to eat at 9pm? It becomes very easy to think (3)

"Well what if I just dont keep a fast tomorrow? It's not like anyone else is waking up" and that mentality, that cycle is very difficult to break away from. Finding ways to keep yourself motivated and making sure you have supportive friends if nothing else really does help (4)

No disrespect to my parents at all through this thread, but the last time my dad kept a fast I was 14 years old. The last time my mum kept one, I was 8. I am going to be 20 in 2 months. There is no judgement because I know everyone's relationship with Allah (swt) differs (5)

and maybe, just maybe, they have more faith in their hearts than I do. There is no telling, and this is why I am a firm firm believer in the idea that "Even though you are born a Muslim, you must still find Islam for yourself." (6)