Category: Daily prompts

But,
Isn’t all of this pre-decided…?

Aren’t we living in a world where each action is predetermined…?
and it’s playing according to what is already written..!

We ask,
Ask that stone figurine,
Ask that book,
Ask prophets and religious scholars——
His will;

And,
All we get in return of our questions,
Our deep profound questions that make this life feel like a lost cause are answers that we already know——


It’s according to their will and nothing will betray it,
and,
the number of breaths that are written in your fate,
you will breathe them-
no more than that and no less than that…!

The more they talk about it in circles,
the less credible they feel;
————
A scenario that happened in real life


Once a person asked me who am I to challenge the word of G0d and not believe in everything that is told to me by my elders and preachers;

A question that has A simple answer,
which would hurt him;

But,
on telling him that,
“I’ve reached an age where I can question things and form my own thoughts and opinions about them,
and I need no support to have my own system that helps me transverse this world;

but,
there are instances where I get stuck and I need answers,
that’s why I seek these religious believers who have devoted their lives to a spiritual being,
for these questions…!”

What about your parents…
Don’t they feel ashamed when you question their beliefs…?

“Again,
I’ve reached an age where I am able to form my own beliefs and follow what appears true to me and my conscience,
and,
if it doesn’t,
no one has the right to force me into a religious practice that I don’t like…!”

You're someone who came from Hindu parents and how can you question the religion that you came from…?

Again,
it was their duty to assure that I grew up strong and with a will that would help me survive this world,
and,
they never questioned anything that I asked them,
even if it was something about religion;

I came from them,
and they happen to practice Hinduism,
But,
that doesn’t make me someone who would blindly trust anything that happens around us;

That’s why I ask such questions,
and,
when my questions got away from their scope they told me to ask these questions to people who are at the pinnacle,
these pandits,
maulanas,
paathis and father in a church-

The questions that I might have…!
——

Anger,
now visible on their face,
I decided to move away from them after greeting the pandit,
and walking back home…!

I thought to myself was  it G0d’s will that a passerby would arrive and feel anger when I questioned not him but a pandit who was answering my questions because of our he has been for the past couple of years;

Next day on returning I found that,
the person who got into a verbal quarrel with me over belief,
Got into some trouble as he was cheating the customers of their money by rigging his scale and shorting their weight by a few ten grams each time;

Until a raid was made when he was chanting mantras in a section of his workspace where he made a small temple…!

A person bought a kilo of sugar and he told one of the employee that it feels light;

Before he could intervene and press the switch that neutrals the scale,
it was taken off by officers from
the department and they found out he could change it from zero to 50 grams;

After shifting its entire blame on a poor employee instead of him,
He got away with a warning and the employee was taken away by the officers…!

The next day as I came across him,
I asked,
how did he feel after throwing someone under the bus when he was really the mastermind behind it all…?

On saying what are you going to do about it,
I knew he was a person who was religious just to wash away his sins after committing them,
and,
didn’t ever thing about not committing them in the first place…!

Few days later,
the police shut down his shop,
after that employee didn’t know how to control that machine and its tweaking;

He was arrested for cheating numerous customers over a span of a decades and also cancelled the license of the weighing scale shop where he got it modified from…

A tale that I tell to people who show off their religion and boast about it,
but,
in their shadow,
they become someone akin to a thief,
and cheat the same people they sit with and chant with and eat food with in the home of G0d…!

I do have some more questions that I need to ask him,
but,
I’m waiting for some sort of transformation to happen on its own…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

I asked him on a serious note because I thought he was joking to me about the statement he just said…!

“She owes me intimacy,
because she is my wife…!”

He repeated himself in that Delhi metro coach that had AC running and cold sweats started to form on my head and my back,
thinking on how many levels he was wrong…!

I asked him to repeat because I thought I heard him wrong…!

You heard me right the first time…!

This was one of the reasons I married her,
I was physically active before and I asked her if she was——

She said she wasn’t;

But,
that doesn’t mean men don’t have any needs…!

———

The words that he was spewing from his mouth made me realise how big of a mistake I made in choosing him as a friend,
A brother who helped me get through some tough times and I did the same with him;

But,
How did all of this escape my observation…?
I thought to myself!


How did I let such behaviour pass through my scope?
Did my mind automatically filter this behaviour,
or——
did it avoid bringing up such things because It knew what type of answers it would receive…!

Must have been the latter…!

Because I never remember bringing up girls/women on any topic to him…!

We debarked that metro and I asked him to join me for a quick snack…!

As we sat in Burger King at Rajiv chowk and ordered burgers and drinks;

And,
I asked him yet again…!

Bhai,
you know that your relationship or your married life cannot hinge on intimacy right?

It felt like he was about to choke on his burger and I advised him to take a sip of his cold drink;

He told me something that shook me to my core,

“There are needs that I have——”

Cutting him I said,
“What about her,
Her needs or her own choices…?”

Just because you married her,
it doesn’t mean that she owes you sex…!

And nowhere it says,
that your needs are above hers…!

He laughed that evil and psychotic laugh that a person does when he thinks he’s bigger than anyone and everyone is beneath them…!

————

When I married her,
I paid it all off on my own,
And,
Didn't demand any dowry——

I didn’t ask for a single penny,
and it was their choice to give me a small car and some furniture;

Maybe they thought it was enough,
but,
the fathers of daughters give their daughters each and every thing,
from small to big like fridge, AC, TV and many other things…!
But,
they thought a small car would be enough if I said no…!

Who even has a small car in these times…!

I was looking at him in horror as this dumb fellow of mine was travelling on metro because the thar that he bought after selling off their car was too big to bring where our office was situated…!

All it did was collect dust by the evening and each morning the cleaner would clean it…!

I was looking at his face as he was chomping down his burger and was onto the next one and occasionally sipping on his drink…!

And I came to the realisation,
This grown a55 dude was a man child who was a puppet with the old ideas that boasted teaching women their place and getting the most out of a father who just gave their daughters their whole worlds
to such son in laws…!

He made a mess while eating and his mouth was covered in sauce,
I handed him a napkin to clean it and he took out his phone and in it
he checked and cleaned it…!

From an outside observers pov you would think that he was a medium
built man wearing a shirt and pants working 9 to 5,
earning good money,
travelling by metro and trying to conserve energy and helping nature…

But,

As soon as all of it was over,
He would go to his real self,
and become this person who would be unrecognisable from
what he was…!

The type of warning I give to all those who are seeking people and looking for partners who would complete them…!

The story remains incomplete because that is where I draw a line,
Only when a person shows efforts of change,
There is a need for your interference…!

If not,
you must not go out of your way to get them to change…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍