Waakiye—A concept and a rescue set free

If you could have something named after you, what would it be?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

It was a slow day yesterday at work,

A job that took the whole day but by the end of the day it was ready;

Which I will have to give to harderning today on my day off…!

It’s 8:18 and my day is packed to the brim…!

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I have to go on shop for necessities like fruits and veggies,

Biscuits and other munchies,

Ghee and some seed oil for home…!

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Other than that I have to go and make some edits to the cards and get them printed in a day or two;

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Try and get a look at what we are going to give my sister in gold;

Maybe a necklace or two;

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And after that;

Plan my entire evening getting information about catering, tents and internal decor for haldi, mehandi and ladies sangeet ceremony…!

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Packed to the brim,

Am I not…?

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Coming back to the prompt…

Something named after me…!

I’d love it if a concept or a phenomenon would be called Waakiye;

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Something that stays in theory and often crosses into the practical world;

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I’d love if it meant to be in a mental state of feeling that signifies being in a comfortable position,

Something like open to all the wellness and filtering out all the negativity…

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I’d never want it to be a building or a road or a venue—

Because I’ve seen the type of hatred people have towards the way things are named and people move to change it ever so often…!

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So,

Having a venue named after me and later changed just because a politician thinks that my name rings of a religious belief that are different from theirs;

It would be a shame to my name and my legacy if something was named once by the masses and then changed because they don’t feel I resonate with them…!

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But if the name stays as a concept or a feeling;

It’s destined to stay even if I’m not…

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Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

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I hope you do remember,

The same young dog that was carrying the pigeons that we recently rescued was chasing this baby squirrel and we rescued it from under a car that it sat patiently waiting for us…!

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And after keeping it for a few days,

As it escaped from the box a few times and eating a healthy amount of seeds and drinking enough water it was ready for the free world…!

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So my sister released it in the evening and it went up the tree,

Never to be found again today…!

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We named him

Gillu or गिल्लू

The first few words of the hindi word

गिलहरी which directly translates to squirrel

🐿️

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