Waakiye

Category: Daily prompts

  • Being true to yourself and having a hearty meal…!

    Being true to yourself and having a hearty meal…!

    What’s your favorite thing to cook?

    Hey…!

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It’s already a Monday today as I’m writing this on a calm yet chaotic morning and the time is 8:37 and I can picture in my mind what my day will be like today…!

    Running here and there in chaos trying to get things done and on top of that managing everything that happens today to prepare myself for a tomorrow that will for sure come as it always has…!

    But, that’s life for all of you and within it we have to be ourselves and try to be the best version too;

    And that doesn’t happen until and unless we are true with our thought and feelings ultimately true to ourselves as a person who lives breathes and tries to exist amongst all those who are on this Mother Earth…!

    I’m pretty sure you’ve heard that not all fingers are of same length, there are people who thrive in chaos and there are some who try to be ways away from it;

    A mixed world that we live in right now…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    My favourite thing to cook

    There will be duality in today’s prompt for sure there will be men who will talk about things that they like to cook on specific occasions and then there will be women who will say that they cook all the time and they will talk about something they like to cook…!

    Well, there isn’t much cooking that I do because most of the time I am busy at work or doing something but when push comes to shove;

    I can make eggs, rice, a white gravy(base) which can be used to make anything after adding veggies and cottage cheese;

    I can also make chicken which I learnt after many trial and errors, but it has been a while since I cooked it so I need to get a grip on it by cooking it once again…!

    I think men should know how to cook too, because that’s how we understand the patience and the process that goes into cooking and it makes us blessed to receive a hearty meal that provides us with satiety and energy to work on things that need our attention…!

    To a meal that all of us will be having today…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Attempts to break my routine and my first computer…!

    Attempts to break my routine and my first computer…!

    Write about your first computer.

    Hey…!

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A gracious Sunday is upon us and within a few hours all of this day will be over 😂…

    I’m not kidding, as we sit on our bed comfortably wrapped in a blanket all cozy, when we will wake up from our sleep it will be around 12 and after a few minutes of trying to wake up; we’ll actually feel like waking up and then run to the bathroom to take a shower and get ready for the plans that we made during the weekdays…

    And it will be around 1 in the afternoon and then we’ll leave the house travel to where we need to be…!

    The daylight is only left for another 5 hours or so and then the worry about the work that you have to do will set in…!

    And prepare yourself for the week ahead—

    All chaos;

    Until you hit the bed and wake up on the Monday morning…! 😩

    With the same expression as I made above because you have to live another week like the one you just spent last week…!

    Well that is the life most of us are living right now; a sense of dread comes with living this monotonous so closely looped life which makes it extremely hard to break your cycle…!

    But that’s what we have to do,

    Break your routine each weekend,

    Well at least try to shift from your monotonous routine if you go to a specific coffee shop each day and get the same drink, tell them that you want something else the next day, maybe a different flavour of coffee or switching the coffee to tea someday…!

    Breaking the routine is one of the things that helps me think that I’m not in a continuous loop of time; where my choices differ each time making me think that I took a different thing that week and helping me remind that I’m not trapped in time…!

    Enough chitter chatter…

    Coming back to the prompt

    My first computer

    Well, I came from a joint family so there was nothing called mine, it was always our and our collective interests were seen and usually the elders needs were prioritised and their words were acted upon as usual…

    But we were kids and we found it to our use as we used to play games and watch videos on YouTube until we got conscious and we started to use it for school work and surfing net to find things that were needed for school/college work…!

    And in 2022 I got myself a personal laptop which I used a whole lot in the year and up until 2025 starting…!

    After that I got myself a tablet and a couple of heavy devices like a Oneplus 12 and an iPhone which practically made laptop of no use up until this point…

    Well there are people who will say that laptops and pc’s are still in use and I don’t deny that; there are things that are done there that aren’t available on these handheld devices…!

    So they’re clearly not redundant, not for me not for everyone on this earth…!

    Well when I have to move data or factory reset one of my phones I usually back up my data on laptop which makes owning one a crucial thing for someone who shifts devices once every two years or so…!

    So their use is very much alive in my life and stays within my reach all the time…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Fear of failure and another fear sparking dream…

    Fear of failure and another fear sparking dream…

    What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A Saturday morning and I woke up with a dream of which I wrote the highlights in my notes app which I will be sharing at the end of the prompt…!

    Well it is very haphazardly written because that’s how I am as soon as I wake up…!

    These dreams happen after intervals that are unpredictable but they are extremely immersive and I find them very astonishing and inspiring as they provide me a perspective that feels out of this world for me…!

    And some days they are affected by what I watch before sleeping and something like that happens in my dreams, well not an exactly alike but on the same lines…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    Things that I’m scared of and what would get me to do it…!

    There are things that bring me fear

    I’m a human after all; even if some of us like to slowly tread near our fears until we have built a resistance and then one day do away with the thing that sparks the said fear…!

    For me,

    It would be the,

    The fear of failure;

    There is nothing that I fear more than falling off and not putting in enough efforts into things I like…!

    There are places I want to be and I want my penmanship to be better than what I was yesterday;

    And to achieve that I have to hit it daily which I do in an attempt to strike a cinder that can be used to light the fire that will carry on my name till the end of humanity or the end of me…!

    And that process of continuously trying to find a vision when one of the thought has been penned down and brought into this world;

    The quest of finding another concept or an idea is where the mind roams making it seemingly an easy task from the outside,

    But;

    After spending so much time in portraying this world into your words even a single day without a thought or a fixation feels like dread and until that isn’t found the life feels meaningless…!

    So-

    It all comes to trying;

    Trying yet again to find an avenue that is unexplored or untravelled and when that happens;

    The world seems an easy place to live in and a purpose is also derived out of the act of finding the right words and answers…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

    (I do remember the dream 👇)

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  • Human nature leading to complains and passage of time…

    Human nature leading to complains and passage of time…

    What do you complain about the most?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Yes, Friday is upon us finally;

    Some of us are going to work today and will enjoy the rest of the weekend off doing what we like…!

    I don’t know why my head is ringing still,

    And yes I know the reason why it is but I planned it all down and wrote why it is,

    And I will be uploading it either tomorrow night or day after tomorrow…!

    The title is (well I can’t give you out the title yet because it gives out all for the context…!)

    I hope you do have plans for the weekend, maybe visiting a restaurant or going on a walk early in the morning;

    You know the first month of the year is about to end right…!!!

    A shocking realisation is the passage of time for me…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    What do I complain about the most…?

    There aren’t a lot of things that I complain about because I have understood the concept of a human being on the giving end also on the receiving end…!

    There are things that require more than specified time to complete by people or even by us which makes us take the heat or someone else take the heat for it;

    Making it one of the topmost things I complain about or get complained about; not getting things ready on time…

    Another thing that I complain to myself is not having the content I want to post out on the deadline that I give myself…;

    Most of it happens because I don’t get enough time to sit down and write in my notebook or my phone; so most of my content comes from the time when I am driving to work or from work and I stop at red light and I pen some things that come to my mind;

    Or when I’m about to get tea/coffee and I wait for it to cool down a bit, you’ll find me scribbling in my notes app…!

    So most of this is just my random thoughts that I dwell upon and feel my thoughts should be brought to the world…

    Back to the prompt-

    I complain less and less about things these days because they hurt my head more than they should…!

    So I just calmly ask the date the thing or the activity would be completed and when things happen on time it makes my life easy and theirs too…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Genuine dislike for cricket and these four walls…!

    Genuine dislike for cricket and these four walls…!

    What are your favorite sports to watch and play?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A cool Thursday morning, which should have already been a Friday; but the world slows down its pace as soon as life seems to get hard and you have to do something you don’t like to do at work or the dread is eating you alive…;

    (Khair…)

    “You are born into this world loving a single sport and you should do it because it helps you channel your inner animal…”

    These are exact words were said by my best friend as I was at his place watching a cricket match which I had absolutely zero interest in because the next day a big project of mine was supposed to happen…!

    So,

    I tried to focus on the match but it was too chaotic for me, because I already prepare myself the night before the next day that I am supposed to achieve a specific result;

    And the match ran right into my schedule for the prepping;

    But there were drinks and a few friends and food that was enough for all of us so we thoroughly enjoyed the night…!

    Well contrary to the entire country(and a few who might feel this way…)

    I am not into cricket…!

    (There I said it…)

    I am not into the fact that there are men/woman who gather around a pitch and catch a ball that a player hit which was thrown by another player…;

    What does this signify…?

    Why I typed it so easily…?

    Why don’t I like cricket…?

    I don’t ask anyone who likes to explore this world,

    why don’t you like the comfort of the four walls that your home provides…?

    Because for resting it might be good but that can never be their destiny;

    Someone who likes to go out and about; The walls within their home block who they actually are;

    On the contrary someone who likes to stay put and loves to live within their homes;

    the same four walls brings them comfort…!

    Enough banter about why I don’t like cricket and going out of my way to prove a point,,,

    Coming back to the prompt

    Favourite sport to watch and play…

    I don’t watch sports that much so, I don’t have a favourite sport to watch at any given time but I’d love to watch polo someday and that is a dream; (only in person, not online even if they do stream it somewhere, yes there’s a website, we can watch it online but we won’t…)

    But I used to play a variety of sports during my high school years;

    It would be table tennis to begin with which I started when I was in 7th grade an I played until I was in 10th grade then I switched to basketball-ball, volleyball for a couple months;

    Which later turned into badminton which I played until I passed out from the school and I occasionally play until this day too…!

    Which makes it one of my favourite sport to play…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Ringing pain in my head and a chance at winning the lottery…!

    Ringing pain in my head and a chance at winning the lottery…!

    What would you do if you won the lottery?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A cool Wednesday morning it is after we were blessed with on and off showers which also boosted the winds making it a hard to survive climate outside…!

    I had a plan to go somewhere but I couldn’t because of the rain and the type of work I was trapped in;

    As soon as the rain stopped a little bit I took my two wheeler and ran towards my home;

    Thankfully I was able to reach home just before light showers started even after the usual 20 minute drive took me 40 because I had to grab supplies for home…!

    Last night was crazy as I had this ringing pain, because I slept late the night before around 3 finishing a movie and even today I feel a little light headed…!

    Oh the days of binge watching things are over now,

    A sad realisation all of it came with…;

    But,

    All I need to do is observe myself;

    It’s the second day and according to my calculations all of the symptoms like pain in my head and feeling lethargy should go by the third day, without taking any heavy dose of caffeine to jolt me awake…!

    All of the above is wrapped in a thin sheet of hope and a promise not to binge watch ever again after midnight…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    Winning the lottery…!

    It is a dream come true right, even if it’s someone like me who has never ever played a single lottery before;

    Not knowing how the things work, but a fact is known that the chance of winning a slim;

    Next to none if seen from a perspective;

    But, on the offset I bought a single ticket and won a sum; I would for sure save it towards a better future..!

    The prompt never tells you if you’re winning big or small, does it…?

    And when all of us think of winning the lottery we all think about winning big, a sum that’s a few crores, if not at least a few ten lakhs would suffice…!

    But winning these expects you to pay a whole lot of the money earned this way in the form of tax (just checked the stats and it’s 30%)

    On the offset you win some,

    The government wins 30% automatically from you;

    No matter if you have been playing it all the time or took a first ticket and won 1 crore for example…!

    The government automatically becomes the owner of 30 lakhs from the money that you earned…!

    It would be selfish to keep all of the remaining money to yourself unless you thank the factors that forced you to buy the ticket and earn it…!

    Maybe donate a portion of the money and keep the rest or make continuous donations of little amount each month which makes you look like a sane person;

    Instead of spending it all on riches that you won’t be able to afford the upkeep of later,

    Like expensive cars and houses which require recurring maintainance but none of it won’t be possible if you have already depleted all of the source…!

    So,

    Spend cautiously;

    It’s the same as the money earned through illegal activities, a lot is earned and a lot is spent and at the end nothing is left…!

    Beware ☢️

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Answering a question about life and my relationship with fictional books…!

    Answering a question about life and my relationship with fictional books…!

    What books do you want to read?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A good Tuesday morning and I slept so good;

    Because last night as I made a post here which basically discussed what counts as a fulfilling marriage to you…!

    Which became a type of prompt for those people who are in my WhatsApp and they answered in one word;

    Which became a challenge for me until the afternoon of Monday until I reached home and killed the whole topic within a span of few hours, because I already had the base words and the concept I wanted to prove ready…!

    The said prompt in question

    What One-Word Answers Taught Me About Marriage
    My answer to the question…!

    And I slept late yes,

    Around 3:30 am because as soon as I was done with it, I dozed off for an hour and I was like “this will come haunt me later…”

    So I woke up at 8:30 in the morning,

    And I have to survive this whole day on 5 hours of sleep…! 🫩🫩

    Yup,

    A problem brought on me by myself;

    (Khair…)

    Coming back to the prompt

    What books do I want to read…!

    There are many books that I have with me which just sit in my bookshelf and there isn’t something that I want to read specifically…!

    But there is something that bugs me,

    I love a good book;

    like an inch thick book works for me; (in height)

    Anything that is more than that seems like a challenge to even look at…

    Because when you’re more of a writer who loves to work around things and provide people with concepts and information in clear and concise manner;

    These thick books makes no sense…!

    I mean I don’t want to ruin fiction for anyone, but most of my work tends to revolve around reality and the things that happen naturally in life and when things stray far away from it,

    It feels like I cannot relate to it anymore…!

    That’s my reason,

    I want to spark a change in me to be able to read fiction, because I like to watch movies and plays which are based on sometimes real sometimes fictional characters;

    Which doesn’t necessarily make me hate it or avoid it at all costs…!

    Does it make any sense to you…!?

    I really hope it does;

    Happy Tuesday…

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Republic Day parade and family traditions…!

    Republic Day parade and family traditions…!

    Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.

    Hey…!

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Well it’s a Republic Day and I hope it’s a day off for you..

    At least the people who are living here in India and you can peacefully wake up and not be bothered to worry about any additional work that is pushed onto you…!

    And I just found out the Republic Day parades that I have been watching on YouTube which were supposedly going in live, on various news channels were previous years and it was supposed to start at 9:30 which I’m watching right now…!

    Yes it’s playing right now…!

    With a blessing that helps me cope with things in my life…!

    My mithu…!
    The prime minister of our nation; Mr. Narendra Modi

    Coming back to the prompt

    Our family traditions…!

    We enjoy parade each year sitting within the comfort of our homes;

    Well we plan on visiting the next year in person to watch the parade, let’s make that happen coming year again…!

    One of the traditions that we have which is akin to Halloween where generally people outside India carve a pumpkin;

    But we have a pot of clay that we got made in which we usually keep a Diya and roam around our house in a way to ward off evil forces and spirits…!

    It is called Gad-bade and I usually celebrated in Punjab and northern regions of India…!

    Its history is said to be that the elders of the village used to put coins in the pot as a token of gift and gratitude towards the coming generations and a way to keep on the traditions alive…!

    Another one would be a get together that we do once every winter in our family where we call our extended families and we gather at someone’s place and have a full blown party,

    As a token of the fact that all of us are in good health and celebrate success of the year that has passed and welcome the new one with open arms…!

    That would conclude today’s prompt and it made me think…!

    We need to have more traditions…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Leisure activities and grateful for my younger self…!

    Leisure activities and grateful for my younger self…!

    What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Guess what I am up today at 6:23 am;

    My mental clock is going back ever so slightly and I can’t seem to grasp why; why is that my hours of sleep is reducing but I can’t feel it…!

    (Maybe a crash is coming…!)

    Maybe this is because I’ve introduced myself to a sleeping earlier…? Because I usually went to sleep around midnight but I remember going to sleep around 11:30 last night;

    An half hour before my routine…

    A crazy idea just came if I go to sleep at 10:30 maybe I can wake up at 5 am in the morning…

    (Khair…)

    It’s a Sunday and I hope all of you wake up well rested and happy…!

    But those who work in the corporate world will wake up thinking it’s the last day of the freedom…;

    But wait; it’s a good thing for people working in India as tomorrow is a holiday for all of you because it’s 26th of January; which is celebrated as Republic Day of India 🇮🇳

    I hope some of you went out to enjoy the long weekend outside Delhi because most of the workforce sits at home and very few things are open on the Republic Day…!

    Well most of the old Delhi is cordoned off by Delhi police and the area is under military watch as the entire area becomes a sensitive zone which is prone to attacks and illegal activities; so they begin shutting down the shops on the main roads a day of two before the actual day that is celebrated which is 26th of January; so the shops are closed from 24th to 26th afternoon maybe…!

    I’ll get you the whole detail tomorrow itself…!

    Coming back to the prompt…!

    What do I enjoy doing most in my leisure time…?

    First of all “What is leisure time…?”

    Because today I woke up earlier by cutting my sleep by an hour and a half to make some time for things that I have been postponing for the past week…!

    I don’t know why I was pushing it further; Because it should have been done already— let me not fill your mind up by unnecessary chatter of mine…!

    This is the scene from my view right now; Overcast and some sunlight coming into my view..! And yes those are my glasses and under that is a toffee called Melody(which I got as the shopkeeper didn’t have loose change…)

    I love to catch up on sleep if I find some leisure time😭😂 (clearly not a joke…)

    I love to listen to music and pen down my thoughts, so I do that whenever I get some free time on my hands…!

    Other than that I am introducing myself to movies once again because my attention span has deteriorated so much that I can’t seem to sit still without checking out other devices;

    After a few minutes;

    On the first screen I’m watching a movie;

    On the other one I’m scrolling a reel

    and on other one I’m searching the details about the movie…!

    Yup that’s how it is for me….!

    I’ve tried to play some games too (online ones) but that makes my head spin after looking at the screen for like 10 minutes…!

    And I planned on buying a ps5 for myself which I know will collect dust because I won’t have enough time to play;

    Earlier it was all about affording one and being able to afford the games that are upwards of INR 5k, a single copy…

    To many that might seem a wastage of money but to a child who loves to play games it’s something that brings them immense joy and happiness…!

    And when it became possible to afford games life happened;

    Now I look back and thank my Timid self for keeping in control and not buying a console…!

    That’s all for today;

    You can go and follow your routine or do let me know what do you do during your leisure time in the comments down below… 👇

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Societal problems and a conversation on Indian flatbreads…

    Societal problems and a conversation on Indian flatbreads…

    Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A Saturday it is and my eyes opened at 7:26 yet again I don’t know what is going on but my eyes seem to open again earlier than my schedule now twice in a row;

    But it’s good for me as I now have more time to do what I want and need to get things done sooner than before…!

    This Saturday morning came to me with some surprises and some questions;

    A friend of my sister, practicing law, was teased by a senior lawyer under whom she’s working, she told all of this to my sister and she hasn’t picked up any call from her past 2 days;

    I have told(my sister) to pay her a visit and if she’s not comfortable she can visit our home and talk all about it to her, and discuss the matter in depth to her…!

    If men could keep it in our pants, this world would be a much better place…!

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    Another one is a problem regarding my nephew;

    He is showing the behavior of someone who is acting really scared all the time and calls their parents on little things at school…!

    His behavior has drastically changed and has caused all of us move in panic and look for solutions all along…!

    We advised to let the school’s counsellor take a look and guide them to take a proper course of action;

    And she told us to look for a therapist(we don’t call it a psychologist because that makes us look coo-coo, an inherent trait that some of us Indians carry…)

    The therapist came to a conclusion that he saw something like a scary movie even after he was told not to and advised to go play with children in the other room;

    He himself sat there and it alternated something in him causing him to be paranoid about that later in a few days…!

    Right now he’s recovering as a few sessions take place and he will be coming to stay with us on Sunday if possible…!

    I’ll let you guys know how it goes…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    An attraction or a town close to home I haven’t visited…!

    There’s a place called MURTHAL , I’m pretty sure all of you have heard it before;

    And it’s ridiculously famous for its paranthas(flatbread with filing in it), served with white butter and creamy lassi…!

    People traveling between Delhi and chandigarh often make a pit stop there to have the said delicacy…!

    The only thing is paranthas are available everywhere, in Delhi which has a street called (परांठे वाली गली) paranthe wali gali…

    An entire street is dedicated to them as there are shops both on the left and right which sell paranthas with the same white butter, lassi and subzi(vegetable curry) too…!

    Is it worth the hype, I’ll let all of you know if I am fortunate enough to go there or pay a visit to the place myself in an update…!

    For the time being, we will have what we have at home and call it a day…😭😂

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye