Have you ever been camping?
1/05/2026@Waakiye
Hey…
I hope all of you are doing well…!
It was a slow day at work yesterday and I had to join back someday and I told myself why not today…!
So I went back to work and started where I left off and began working on the blanks that I prepared before I took the days off for my sister’s wedding…!
I was able to hunk off quite a bit of material and I think I will be done with what was left around 1 in the afternoon—
And I will begin on the second lot today itself and prepare some material for stock as we were running out of it before I went on my leave…!
A packed day it is and it will be a long one too,
but,
I need to draw a line somewhere,
I need to fulfill the promises I made to myself and set boundaries at work like working for a finite amount of time and we have started to reject emergency orders which bring us under a lot of pressure and even after the order is complete we are given the same amount that we were supposed to get if we were doing it on a normal time like a span of a day or two…!
It’s a lot of work that we are turning down but that comes after being forced to work like literal machines and not being paid adequately for it…!
And once that happens we can charge extra for the emergency work that requires same day action on something…!
It’s not something I see purely from a business pov but;
I see it from a view that it gives us a sense of accomplishment and we are adequately paid for it too because we are making time from our packed routine to accommodate your emergency…!
Something that is hard to see if you’re not looking at it from an industrial pov where things go wrong and require maintenance at every single step…!
Coming back to the prompt
Camping and my views on it
Let me be honest;
I’ve never been on a camping trip per se—
like,
We didn’t plan in advance and bought gear and prepared ourselves and took training for setting up tent and any other thing…!
But—
I’ve been to enough hill stations and have enjoyed the pseudo-camps that they have set up there…!
I remember a trip to a place called narkanda which is 60 something kilometres upwards of Shimla and where we booked our homestay…!
And at that place they were setting up these tents next to the bonfire that they had made out of old metal drums and they were putting in wood that they brought from a shed that was attached to the property…!
and after paying extra we got in those tents and took the feeling of what it feels like camping…!
Well,
pseudo—camping to be honest
because all of the stuff was provided to us like food in plates and timber was added to the fire by the homestay staff;
and all we did was sit put in that rent and even blankets were provided to us in that tent and we slept like logs…!
Let me bring your attention to
Pseudo—camping
because that is what we did,
we didn’t hunt(pretty sure that isn’t allowed here in India)
we didn’t cut down trees to keep the fire running,
and we didn’t set up tent as it was already there;
But,
we did feel like we did camping…!
(or maybe in an essence…)
To camping—
A pseudo one if you may;
Cheers 🥂
Love Waakiye 🤍
Waakiye 
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