A Home Full of Nothing Ahmad hated his parents' eager approach to visiting the relatives in Eid. His idea of Eid was doing nothing but sleep late and visit his friends in the afternoon. Yet his mother always lectured him about the whole meaning of Eid and how we always have to visit our close relatives. His father agreed to Ahmads point of view of not seeing all the relatives, since they had a big …showed first 75 words of 1983 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1983 total…as there were so many special conversations he could have with Ali. Sitting in this house, which seemed so empty without him, it dawned on Ahmad that there were other people, even more dear to him, that he might one day lose. The fear of losing his loved ones overwhelmed his senses and he realized that the time he spent with his family would someday become painful memories of the wonderful moments they had together.