Waakiye

Category: Daily prompts

  • Struggle for necessities and technological advancements…

    Struggle for necessities and technological advancements…

    How has technology changed your job?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    You know what happens when you have to struggle for one of the basic requirements of living…!

    In my case it was the supply of fresh water which we utilise for all of our necessities;

    For drinking, bathing, watering these plants, cooking, cleaning and so many other things that help us live…

    Let’s not forget washing our clothes and today our washing machine will have to run double shifts because of the water shortage for the past few days…

    I cannot forget how my family spent arranging water from sources that I wouldn’t leak because this problem will come again on all of us…!

    When there is a genuine struggle to even secure your basic necessities, life becomes hard,

    And I know not just because of this water shortage.

    But I come from a place where I’ve seen people carry jugs of water just to bathe and drink…!

    “Only if your basic necessities are met, your mind moves out of survival mode…”

    Isn’t it…?

    Coming back to the prompt

    How has technology changed my job…

    Hasn’t technology changed our life on the whole…?

    Imagine there is something that is available on the north of India,

    Maybe kashmir;

    And you want that living in the west coast like Mumbai or,

    Somewhere down south like Kerala;

    The advertisement of it reaches you in your privacy within your room on this phone,

    For which you don’t have to turn on something like a TV or search a channel;

    You just open any social media app and it reaches you…!

    If we’re talking about my business specifically,

    It has helped me in speeding up the process that usually took most of the time,

    I.e. turning the material using cnc machines…!

    And when the basic thing that requires most of the time is cut short,

    Everything happens quickly;

    And this job of writing has taken a whole another level,

    As everything happens so fast,

    Like an idea that comes like a flash of light;

    —

    Noting it down has become more easier than ever before;

    Imagine writing each and everything down,

    It doesn’t happen nowadays;

    It’s either voice notes and those notes converted into text,

    And if I really plan on writing it too has to be quick so I don’t lose anything…

    Would it be possible to pen down each thing without a proper phone if it weren’t for the technology to develope it…?

    Do you think any of us would exist if we didn’t have the equipment to pen down things and explore it later when we are at peace with the surroundings…?

    Do you…?

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A promise and an obsession…!

    A promise and an obsession…!

    How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    After spending last evening feeling bad about something, even I don’t know about;

    Maybe it’s the situation that I’m trapped in right now,

    Or,

    Maybe the pileup of responsibilities that have gotten heavier as each day passes,

    I wrote about the sweet nature of death in hinglish and the circular nature of grief;

    Technically about those who were once with you but now they aren’t;

    But now they lay flat in the ground or their ashes sit in an urn or maybe the same ashes were put into to a river that is considered holy…!

    The piece waits to scratch something hidden within your heart or a memory waiting to be remembered once again;

    —

    That’s how it felt as I was writing this one;

    —

    Remembering those who have gone far away,

    Maybe they have taken birth into this world again or they’re free from the cycle;

    Maybe this evening…

    (Please remind me because I’ve become more forgetful…)

    Coming back to the prompt…

    Saying “No” when my goals are at stake…!

    It might not seem like it but,

    When things come to my dreams and my goals I quit everything that is around me…!

    I turn away from things no matter how important it might be,

    I just up and walk in the general direction that leads me to the place that demand my attention…!

    Even if it means taking myself away from the short term things that help me survive daily…!

    One of those is my business,

    For its betterment I’ve given up practically my whole life and not pursue my college education,

    Only because of a person who isn’t there with us anymore,

    But,

    A promise made to that person stays with me,

    Maybe he’s watching me from afar,

    And thinking to himself that,

    He is still working each day and is keeping his word…!

    —-

    So, for a promise and a dream that we took together,

    A son still works even when he doesn’t want to…!

    Other one is writing

    For this,

    All of this, for this penmanship I’ve been to places that are dingiest ones I’ve seen—

    .

    I’ve been to places that you wouldn’t otherwise even think of going physically and mentally…!

    .

    Fixated on things for weeks at a single span and when something fruitful comes out of it;

    .

    It’s for the world to enjoy as much as it was for me to write…

    .

    I’ve said no to loved ones in the past for leaving me behind to come up with things that I never regret….!

    It would make you think that there isn’t much that I have to survive,

    .

    A medley of these two things;

    .

    And just like that,

    I’ve found a reason to live,

    A reason to survive each day;

    A promise to someone and an obsession that keeps me functioning…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Early morning Railway station visit and getting better at pattern recognition…!

    Early morning Railway station visit and getting better at pattern recognition…!

    What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    This day was stated early as I had to drop a family member who was with us for the past few weeks,

    So we travelled to New Delhi railway station early in the morning as she had to leave for Panjab;

    In the morning train called Shan-e-Panjab…

    A speedy click that led to this perspective like I’m running away…
    Me on my way back after getting them seated, up the escalators….

    You’d be happy to know how much they have improved on their services;

    But,

    The crowd is still the same,

    No matter what happens, you cannot take the human nature out of us humans can you…?

    After getting her seated,

    I came back home and after sitting down for a while I came on my terrace,

    And the same routine follows—-

    Coming back to the prompt…

    Secret ability I wish I had…

    If I were given a chance to be blessed with an ability,

    “I’d love to get a better grasp at reading behaviours and patterns that all of us humans (intentionally or unintentionally) make…”

    I know it’s a bit of a reach for a person like me to achieve that;

    But,

    Keeping on trying and exploring means that I will achieve it someday…!

    It will help me both in write ups, my regular life and business life too;

    Because I’d get better at making a client comfortable and better form myself to come to the unified terms which benefit both of us…!

    In my personal life,

    I’d get a chance to get to know what they really want before they come to any conclusions,

    But that doesn’t mean I’d jump the gun as soon as I find an answer;

    I’d let them come to a conclusion naturally,

    And,

    Never cut them off or the conversation abruptly making them think I know what they were talking about or what they wanted…!

    If I was ever imparted with this ability, I would get to know more about humans as being and human nature which comes to us from us being ourselves…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Cold winds and light showers that bless us…!

    Cold winds and light showers that bless us…!

    What is your favorite type of weather?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well on this beautiful day…!

    Woke up with another dream,

    But in this one I got late and my mom came into my room to wake me up at 8 in the morning…!

    And when I really woke up it was 6:22 on my phone and my first alarm was about to ring at 6:30….

    I got up and followed my morning routine to the dot and went on my terrace to be welcomed to this amazing view that I wanted you all to witness…!

    Other than that,

    My walk has been cut short due to rain,

    And all of the work that was supposed to be a part of day will be delayed due to rain…!

    Well it technically isn’t rain,

    But occasional showers that come and go so as soon as it stops I’m back on my feet and writing too…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    My favourite weather…!

    Before choosing my favourite weather,

    I’d like to tell you each one of them might be favored by someone;

    Well the broad types are,

    • Sunny
    • Cloudy
    • Windy
    • Stormy
    • Rainy
    • Snowy

    These are the broad types and some of them have their own sub types and those leads to different situations…!

    To be honest,

    My favourite type is sunny with occasional winds blowing heat off my body;

    When there is something important that is supposed to take place and I have to be a part of it and I have to travel for it…!

    But,

    When it’s a slow day,

    And I am at home reading a book or writing something gloomy;

    It would be great to have a weather that is rainy and the hue is grey;

    And I can feel myself falling in the shoes of the character that I’m writing even better,

    When this gloomy weather takes place outside…!

    Okay,

    It’s decided I’ll give you a show of what I write when I’m free,

    this evening…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

    Some more scenes under

    Look at those clouds
    A pigeon that stopped by to get shelter from the rain checking out its surroundings…!
    Checking out the place and finding some twigs…!

    Just like I said,

    It’s survival if you are on the go and it starts to rain,

    Even if you’re a bird…!

  • Reason behind these vivid dreams and influences that built me…!

    Reason behind these vivid dreams and influences that built me…!

    Who was your most influential teacher? Why?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    I’d like to begin this prompt by telling you all that the habit of me having these vivid dreams come fron my mom;

    Because in a span of a few weeks she told me a few dream that she had;

    DREAM 1

    One was last week in which she was handed a pouch that had gold bars and coins and was told to deliver it to a person with a specific name;

    And on finding that person after a lot of turmoil,

    That person says to give it to the fishes;

    Literal fishes in a pond….

    😂

    But she instead of giving it,

    Keeps the pouch and the valuables within and becomes paranoid until she wakes up…!

    Dream 2

    Today she told me a dream that a person came in between her and my father and caused a divorce on the word of his mouth;

    Later it turned out to be he wanted his sister to be married to my now late father;

    And how everything unfolds and many characters of our family come in and intervene;

    The conclusion is that my father who works in corporate world keeps my mom to work in the office where he stays all day and only returns to home at night,

    And he promises to take care of us(both his son and daughter…)…!

    A happy yet sad conclusion…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    Most influential teacher and the reasoning…

    There’s a person and an abstract thing that I would give this title to…

    The first one would be my English teacher from my high school and specifically who is now a principal of the same school because of her prowess and the control that she has on the language and her ability to filter and find out people who are expert…!

    Any love that exists within this mind and heart for the language happens to be just because of her…!

    Her classes were something that I miss,

    Even after 10 years;

    So much interactive and

    They were so easy to grab and latch myself onto,

    Which deepened my love for the language,

    That they stay etched into my very core…!

    In an abstract sense;

    Failure would be the most influential teacher,

    Because it taught me to be consistent with my effort and walk with my head high until I was destined to achieve what I had in my mind…!

    There are times when nothing works and I feel like I’m falling back into my old habits;

    And when that happens I take some time off,

    Grab what my mind wants to do,

    Often times its something of a bad post or something that is gruesome that I pen down and put that thing back in my notes app…!

    This has happened a few times and I feel a sense of clarity after getting my head clear of all the negative thoughts and feelings…!

    And I build myself right back up the next day…!

    Like nothing happened…!

    At the end,

    Failure has taught me and given me power to get up yet again and conquer the next obstacle each day, everyday…!

    What would you consider influences you…?

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A close call and a disruption in my routine…!

    A close call and a disruption in my routine…!

    What do you wish you could do more every day?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    This day has blessed me with sunlight and warmth;

    And it’s currently 8:03 as I’m writing this one….

    I just came back from a bird hospital that exists nearby;

    Guess what we rescued…!

    A little baby pigeon

    One of the street dogs, who’s timid and almost a year old was carrying it in its mouth like it won a prize;

    After showing the street dog a treat;

    Greed overcame and dropped it from the mouth and ran for it in the other direction;

    After grabbing the pigeon with my hands I brought it into my home,

    Grabbed my sister and took it to the bird hospital that is situated on the east park road, Karol Bagh, New Delhi…

    After getting an initial assessment and being made aware of its weakened state;

    The lack of hydration and food turned out to be the culprit…!

    After dropping it off and driving back home it’s almost 9 and most of my morning walk time was almost over…!

    🥲🥲🥲

    Coming back to the prompt

    Something I wish I could do more everyday…!

    I think you already know the answer but I’d like to add a few things;

    —

    Like having more hours each day;

    But something like that wouldn’t be possible and it would be a chaos on its own and its repercussions on all other things that happen during the day…;

    I wish I could be of more help to those who are in need,

    Not animals per se,

    But,

    Helping other fellow humans who are in need and aren’t fortunate enough….!

    I wish to tend to this garden that is on my terrace with my own hand which I do on my days off,

    But on the regular,

    I water them on the alternate days only…!

    At the end,

    I’d like to be closer to my own self and have enough time to write and pen things which help me in the long run by giving me perspective on life and all of its avenues…!

    In Crux I’d like to be a but more selfless,

    And focus outward that gives me more things to think and do…!

    What about you…?

    What is it that you want to do more of each day…?

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

    Another rescue that was dropped by another kind human waiting for its turn…!

    I love people who help those who cannot speak and tell about their pains and suffering through words…!

    May those people live long and happy lives…!

    😇🥹

  • Regret of not posting in the morning and my first tattoos…

    Regret of not posting in the morning and my first tattoos…

    What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…

    Making this late night post made me realise what happens when you don’t have a clear headspace to work things out in the morning and the stress of it spills all over the day and haunt you till the night…!

    Well,

    As I’m about to fall asleep,

    And, I can’t control the rate at with the yawns are coming to me now;

    For the time being I am about to fall asleep and let me quickly get back to the—

    Prompt of the day…!

    Tattoo I’d like to get and the special place for it…?

    There are two things that I love about tattoos,

    Their permanence and a fact that it shows, how committed you can be to a certain thing,

    Well,

    Certain enough to be poked by those needle that moves two and fro so fast that it looks like it’s moving at supersonic speeds…!

    But,

    It’s all fun and games when you are in the company of your friends and all of them plan to get one and there you are stuck deciding do you want to get one,

    Or

    Do you have any real friends,

    Or did you make any mistake in choosing your friends…?

    Well,

    My first tattoo would either be the initials,

    “SMG”

    Which is a famous trio of three people and those who know them—

    Know them…

    And they also know that sort of a tattoo im talking about…

    The perfect place would be the back of the hand….

    The other one would be shared by two,

    The numbers

    “143422”

    Or,

    “LLSMW 🕊️”

    Both of them come from a place…

    Both of them come from Panjabi artists that have a special place in my heart and probably in the hearts of a lot of people…!

    The first one would officially have a deeper meaning;

    By a super fast upcoming artist called GAGG-E, and his first ever album named the same 143422;

    Whereas the other one signifies the legacy that Sidhu Moosewala carried and still carries to this day;

    Well,

    Hologram show is something that can be somewhat of a reality within this year with the oncoming of the trailer today…!

    And I’d get them on my forearms, facing towards me not on the other side so I can see and remember each time the people who made this life worth living…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Being Introspective in a surface level world…!

    Being Introspective in a surface level world…!

    What is one word that describes you?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well..!

    It’s 7:36 in the morning as I’m writing this and Delhi has been blessed with rains after a few hot and humid days;

    And the same overcast horizon happens to bless us all today too…!

    And this weather brings out a plethora of feeling of that range from love for your significant other and something of a loss that originates from being all alone…!

    Well this evening will tell us which side overpowered the other one,

    Or maybe it will be a mix of both…?

    Who knows—-

    Coming back to the prompt

    A word that describes me…

    After sitting on this one line for half hour and thinking what would be the right word that would describe Waakiye in a single world—

    It would be,

    Introspective

    It has been brought to my attention one two many times, even when I’m writing something small or even long posts;

    That it appears to those around me I get cut off from this world;

    And go dwell into a world that exist beyond this one…!

    Like all of the world exists within this notes app or my trusty notebook…!

    And when I tell someone a story or something of a writeup it feels like it was written after being in the shoes of the person no matter which hierarchy the character cones from…!

    And often I’ve been told that I dwell too deep into the details and the specifics of it too…

    And when that piece is read it reflects the same…!

    So,

    Being introspective would be the perfect description of who and what I am…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • When compliments don’t feel like them…!

    When compliments don’t feel like them…!

    What was the best compliment you’ve received?

    Hey..

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It’s 7:58 in the morning as I’m writing this…

    After spending most of yesterday’s working hours getting the metal pipes changed that bring us water from main water lines which corroded over the years;

    I wanted to completely shut down when I came back at our premises at 6 but I got some orders which needed preparations and when that happens we have to stay on our feet and note each and every detail…!

    So I reached home around 8 and it was showing on my face because everyone around me asked if I was okay…?!

    Did something happen or did someone say anything to me…?

    On saying no and sitting next to me and enquiring about my day they assumed it was tiredness and let me rest after telling me to have dinner…!

    My mom last left the room and she kissed me on my head and said,

    “Where would we go without you beta…?”

    And my sister walked in too as she was saying that, without knocking of course,

    And,

    She sat on the corner of my bed and said,

    “May G0d give you everything that you have on your mind and in-turn you give me money…!”

    That empty room filled with laughter,

    I was reminded the real people who I was grateful for and who I did everything for…!

    And in that happy moment I felt a silence a voice missing of the person who will forever stay within our hearts,

    Everyone’s hearts who was within that room—

    Hope his life ahead is an easier one…!

    After saying that in my mind I got ready to have dinner with them…!

    (Khair…)

    Coming back to the prompt…!

    Best compliment I’ve received

    Do men ever receive compliments…?

    Or,

    I have been someone who is so cut off from the world that I don’t remember when it comes to being complimented or remembering a compliment…!

    I do remember being told that—

    I don’t have the same thinking as the kids of this generation;

    They’re abrupt and cut off people in the middle,

    And I came to our rescue by saying that,

    The new generation knows when to stop and by stopping I mean themselves and others too when they know the conversation will take a wrong turn…!

    Another one,

    I was told this by an older person when I was travelling by train to my extended family—

    I think in a way that’s better than most of the adults that they’ve met…!

    And I told them it’s my company and the type of people I surround myself with as a fully functioning adult and my thought process—

    But before I could complete the sentence they said—

    It gives them a clear picture of how my parents brought me up and taught me well…!

    The obsession of older generation to bring the parents of our younger generation into conversation is something that needs to be studied…

    But from that they can easily criticise both them and us in a single sweep and some people don’t tolerate that….

    “Thank you for bringing my life which I was so scared of infront of the whole world…”

    This compliment I received from a girl who I didn’t even meet IRL,

    She has a very tragic life story and when she told me everything that went on with her life;

    I didn’t tell her that it would be okay or to forget her past,

    But,

    What I did was asked her to tell me everything about her and what went on and her permission to bring her life infront of others…

    I wrote it to the best of my abilities and sent it to the world to view and read and comment and tell how grateful she was to survive a broken family and find her space within it all…!

    It’s been some time now that we haven’t talked and I hope she is well…!

    And I didn’t do it to her close to her in any way,

    Infact as she opened up to me I felt her taking the place of my little sister that I never had…!

    I’ll check up on her today as I remember this…!

    I’ve been told that—

    I write well and I must have published a few books by now—

    To which I say that I’m still learning and finding myself in that process and shaping myself in a person that I want to be like who does things on his own accord without being influenced by others…!

    If you are here reading this,

    You must have read these are the things as compliments but it feels like none of them were a compliment to me—

    They felt like subtle things that people notice…!

    None,

    Not even a single one of them felt to me like a compliment…

    Maybe because I have a thick skin or my definition of compliment differ from others…?!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Time, Temptations, and the Roads We Choose…

    Time, Temptations, and the Roads We Choose…

    You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike?

    Hey…

    —

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    —

    After waking up at 7:30 and wanting to stay a bit more in my bed made me realise it’s almost 8;

    I got up and changed my clothes and went out on my walk after my morning routine..!

    —

    It’s currently 8:05 in the morning as I’m writing this one…!

    —

    I’m really thinking what is there to talk about and what happened yesterday…!

    In the evening,

    I really wanted to have a drink as I stared at those bottles for in my cabinet;

    —

    Well,

    Those glass bottles remind me of happy times that I spent with people around me,

    But;

    They also make me realise those night I spent drinking all alone,

    And drinking until I couldn’t and then going to sleep…!

    Both the positives and negatives of drinking(heavy emphasis on the negatives…)

    Well you’re socialising,

    I know,

    But it harms,

    Even a drop harms when it comes to your body…!

    —

    In that case the mind wants more and more each time…!

    —

    The glass is empty and your friend’s isn’t,

    He’ll pour you another one…

    A dangerous cycle it becomes…!

    (Khair…)

    It’s better to quit when you can,

    Before all of the bills pile up and you are spending your days in recovery…!

    —

    Beware it’s a habit that kills, along with smoking and those hard drugs…

    Coming back to the prompt

    Cross country trip and my mode of transportation…!

    Well,

    This prompt critically sums up a problem within that isn’t visible on the surface…

    It’s your opinion on how do you value time…?

    When travelling by air,

    You reduce time spent travelling to mere hours or maximum of 20 hours from wherever you stand…!

    —

    And when you look at it,

    You get the shortest path from one point to other…

    But by traveling by air,

    You cannot get to know people that you would otherwise on any other mode of transportation..!

    —

    And even if you consider the person sitting on your left , right or both if you’re sitting in the middle…!

    If you’re travelling by train,

    You’ll find people from all walks of life,

    From bottom to upper class a mix that you won’t find anywhere…!

    —

    They travel with the same purpose of reaching from point A to point B,

    And you can pay more to reach there faster,

    But that is at no comparison with travelling by air as it takes significant more hours and days at a time to reach if you want to even travel within the national borders…!

    Travelling by bus is a worth if you travel a lot though the night;

    Because you can sit in a bus in the evening around 6 and by 6 in the morning you can travel well across national borders,

    You can go one/two states over…!

    —

    Accounting in it maybe an hour or two of stopping for passengers and their wellness…!

    Well at last comes travelling by car/bike

    Something that I live and have immense love for…!

    —

    You can travel at your pace,

    Absorbing everything that comes with it…

    By meeting new people and comeing across avenues of life that weren’t possible travelling any other way…

    —

    Because if you see a picturesque scene,

    You can just stop,

    Jump out of your car or off your bike absorbing everything that exists and maybe take a few pictures as a keepsake…!

    —

    Also you meet people who are either going or coming back from the place that you want to go…

    —

    You can travel at your pace and return as you wish,

    A drawback that it’s the slowest form of travel and takes more than hours and days, weeks if you plan on travelling cross borders(plural borders…!)

    How to save travel time is essentially the question here…!

    And how you value your time differs from person to person..!

    —

    If you want to travel fast and reach quicker travelling by air is you go to,

    All other options are considerably less when compared to airway but with their own pros and cons…!

    If I had a chance I would travel cross borders on my car,

    If I can get my hands on such free and open time in my tightly packed schedule;

    Along with the money to afford visas and regular maintenance of the ride and those who are tagging along with me,

    My loved ones…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍