Waakiye

Category: Daily prompts

  • Light showers and events that bring me happiness…

    Light showers and events that bring me happiness…

    List five things you do for fun.

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A cold morning it was and Delhi has finally been blessed by rain today…!

    I don’t know why but my eyes opened at 7:34 am this morning and as soon as I saw out of my window I saw the perfect weather for rain…!

    All of the sunlight blocked and it appeared grey, which now has turned into some sunlight peering through the skies…!

    A view from my window…!

    Due to which I had to skip my morning walks but I took a few circles around my terrace…!

    With that being said I have my work cut out for me as it’s a Friday and I have to deep clean my room, and remove the clutter…!

    Which will happen after I make this post public;

    Until then I can think, curled up in this cozy blanket and complete it with all my mind…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    Five things I do for fun

    Well,

    You’ll be surprised to know that not much fun goes on in my life, I usually keep things neutral not to happy not too sad, but my mother immediately finds if something wrong with me as soon as they take a look at my face…

    I don’t know how that’s possible but that’s what happen when someone births you and has taken care of you your entire life;

    They know you though and through…!

    Let’s not go astray from the topic…

    Let me tell you things I do for fun—

    • I like to watch plays which are rare like once every two or three weeks but it feels like I become a new person as I walk out of the theatre/auditorium…!
    • I like to go on walks and explore the possibilities of finding new avenues of life, even when I go outside I keep my eyes out in the distance so I don’t trip firstly and also to get an insight into the life’s of people who are ready to talk…
    • I like to hang out with my friends, whenever schedule permits we usually set a place or just hang out around each other’s house have something to drink like tea/coffee or something light; we don’t usually meet for food but a breakfast escape is due from a long time…!
    • I love to read, well not much these days but I do have books that I’ve bought and love to read them once I get time(I know I can’t get anything more out of these 24 hours…)
    • The last thing that I do, that I love is journaling; I do that each day and pen down thoughts and dreams that I have which makes me clear my mind of the negative thoughts, not necessarily in my phone but also in a diary that I carry with me everywhere…!

    These are the things that I do for fun, and I hope you also do some things that shift you from your monotonous routine into something that helps you to break your cycle…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A deep question and sincere apologies to our pets…

    A deep question and sincere apologies to our pets…

    If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…

    A not so cold Thursday morning it is, honest to G0d I slept in shorts and a single T and even then I was feeling hot in the blanket so you know what I did; I put one of my legs outside and the rest of my body was in the blanket…

    Haha 🤣

    The morning walk was brisk and good and I met the street dogs as usual and I will remember to carry some dog biscuits for them tomorrow morning…!

    Also;

    I wrote a question on my WhatsApp status and got good answers too,

    It was

    What counts as a fulfilling marriage to you…?

    And I got soo many responses;

    it was crazy to jus keep up with them…

    It would be great if I could get some answers so I can come up with a post late tonight about this topic as I’m working on it right now…!

    A fulfilling marriage indeed, is it supposed to be fulfilling according to you…?

    Coming back to the prompt

    Making your pet understand one thing…!

    It’s such a beautiful prompt that all of the pet owners have something that they want to let their pets(well in some cases their children) known…!

    They want to make them understand that they are loved,

    And basic things like you shouldn’t poop in the house like the couch or the carpet, outside would be good …!

    We go to work to earn money for treats and the shoes that we own aren’t toys because they cost an arm and a leg maybe the whole left side(considering the amount of shoes my dogs have chewed till this date…)

    For me,

    The most important thing would be a dual question…!

    The first would be,

    What was the dream in which you started to shake which happens once every blue moon…?

    I’d like to decipher and protect them and let the entire world know how can we help them and prevent it…!

    It was a dream and dreams are not real is what I’d like to make them understand, and they are safe within this warm house and in our embrace…!

    Another one would be something that is selfish on all our part(Most of our part…)

    We(each of us pet owners) would like to apologise to them, for pulling them away from their mothers…!

    This is a guilt that we all carry in our subconscious, I know;

    Well one of my dogs is a rescue because their mom passed to the world beyond this one and she left her child infront of our door and in the morning, and we found her breathing her last breath infront of us because she was poisoned by someone…!

    Cruel world…!

    So we took her in and embraced her as a part of our family, and she lives happily with us…!

    These two questions(one question and another statement) are something that I’d definitely ask/tell them…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Putting my share in at work and exploring the name Waakiye

    Putting my share in at work and exploring the name Waakiye

    Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc.

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A long day it was yesterday, I was able to complete the job that I had at my hand yesterday and start the next one a little bit…!

    Maybe I will end it today itself ( I hope so…)

    And this day was a good one, I went out for a walk and saw many a things like birds and street dogs, which I petted just before returning home and thoroughly washing my hands…!

    All in it seems like a good morning and I hope the rest of the day goes the same way…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    My first name it’s meaning, significance and etymology…

    Well it’s a tricky one because I intentionally plan to keep it hidden and people to know me by this name only;

    Which is

    Waakiye

    I can go deeper into the name that I chose for myself because that is something I wanted to be known by and it resonates with me more…

    And in an Indian household your actual name is used very less; all the time you are called by a short name or how we usually call people around us…

    For Indian users they know what I’m talking about, but for those viewing from outside,

    A pseudonym like(bhai, bhen, beta, oh hello) translations(brother, sister,daughter, son, hello!)

    Sometimes a short form of your name is used, heavily butchered is a sense that strays away from your actual name;

    That’s why you will see that some don’t have an attachment to their names…

    —

    It might seem to you that waakiye name is incomplete but in a sense it displays duality in a single word…

    • Waak’ye(वाक्य) which means a sentence in my native language Hindi…
    • Waak’ya(वाक़या) which means A happening maybe an incident, an accident or an event that took place somewhere…

    Both of them being significant words in our native language because when we string these words together we form a sentence which gets our feelings and thoughts across each other,

    Just like I am penning all of this and it will reach you once I upload and you get to read all of it…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Quitting tracking these 24 hours and a few work tasks…!

    Quitting tracking these 24 hours and a few work tasks…!

    What’s your dream job?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It’s a calm Tuesday morning and I feel a bit better about today, because I already have in control what all I have to do at work today;

    It usually is predictable; for example I have to finish a specific task like there are 476 pcs that needs to be chamfered on a single side and I think it will take around two and a half hour maybe three but it shouldn’t take any more than that;

    And after that I’m getting onto a turning job that has been sitting on for so long that a layer of dust has formed on the raw material;

    Which I plan to finish by this day’s end too,

    After that I will go to some regular task like making some material that goes out on the regular…!

    Enough chatter about work,

    Well it was a nice intro to the type of work that I do, but it seem a lot more easy looking from an outside pov but when it comes to doing an actual industrial job; it really breaks your back and gives you so much more challenges that you have to keep on thinking to make it work…!

    Coming back to the prompt…

    My dream job…!

    Let me begin by saying that, there’s no chance and no amount of money that will get me to dream about a job…!

    Well those would be nightmares that can have me sitting in a confined space and make we work…!

    No other way 😂

    Let’s not steer away from the prompt—

    A real dream job would be to be free enough to work on things that I like,

    I mean having a cup of tea/coffee and sitting in mountains somewhere, where I would have a place called home and in such environment I am free enough to come up with much better posts and stories than what I do right now..!

    (Some of it is also dependent on seeing people and the type of things that happen around me sparking a change within me…)

    Because most of my time is eaten away by work 10+hours daily(good days)

    And the remaining is spend in driving to and fro, some additional work that pops up, hanging out at my usual tea shop, forming ideas and thoughts into what becomes a post;

    (Sometimes they just take up memory in my phone…!)

    But all of that happens for a reason and that’s what I say to myself and keep on working even if it seems tedious to someone who looks from outside…!

    Just like now,

    I’m working on this post and having a conversation with a friend and helping my sister open an account online…!

    Multitasking is the way to go when these 24 hours seem short, shorter than what they usually seemed to be earlier…!

    A dream job would be that I’m free from tracking these 24 hours and I’m in a space that I can work on things I like while also working with my hands occasionally;

    Which keeps me grounded and helps me earn a bit too while also helping those who are working for me…!

    A dream job that employs people and gives them enough that their life becomes easier would be the best…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Monday blues and the leaders that represent us

    Monday blues and the leaders that represent us

    What makes a good leader?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Another Monday is upon us all;

    And by pushing ourselves in a direction that guides us towards a future that’s better for us would be the best possibility…!

    But,

    Not all days are good ones, some days you just exist and some days you just want to disappear into thin air but those days demand more of you every time that happens…!

    Haven’t we all been there…?

    (Khair…)

    Those days are a part of the life and its phases;

    So we have to endure them too with all our might and just like we laugh and shed tears of happiness on our happy days, likewise we just turn silent and embrace those sad days too;

    We have to, there isn’t a choice, if there is, do let me know…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    What makes a Good leader…?

    Someone with a spine…!

    The entire prompt can be summed up in the line above…!

    Haha,

    If it was so easy we wouldn’t have these speeches, protests and many talks of propaganda and making people fight on the basis of religion(or their religious beliefs…)

    Someone who works for those who brought them into power, and the fear that the same can pull them down once should remain within their heart and mind…!

    A grounded approach and a good sense of self including reading the whole room as they walk in is a must;

    Because they represent us on a scale that exists beyond just the people who brought them into power;

    They now represent us on a scale that whole world can view and even their single loose comment brings shame onto us and sets an example of how tolerable we are with that we let them speak…!

    Accountability of their actions and how they plan to work for the people and bring some change into the working of the government that sparks change into the life of the people well not directly, but maybe in an indirect sense like supporting industrial sector and the agricultural sector which form the backbone of the country…

    Contrary to the types of leader we have in power these days, we would love to have the polar opposite of what we have in power these days…!

    A long thought to ponder about isn’t it…?

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Insatiable human greed and life in the out in the middle of nowhere…!

    Insatiable human greed and life in the out in the middle of nowhere…!

    If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

    Hey

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A calm Sunday morning it is; I have some guests over and we spent the night eating and talking about our life;

    We talked about their lives in Ambala, Haryana and how connected they are to the nature because they are surrounded by fields that have plantations of wheat, sugarcane, other crops and hay all year round…!

    They were talking about how breathing is easier and how they just ask their neighbours and they allow them to take something that they need from the fields that have grown fully;

    They had spinach a few weeks back and they said it was absolutely delicious…!

    Ooh to live this chaotic life behind and be one with nature…!

    But all of this comes with a price;

    Nothing is near,

    They have to travel 30-45 kilometres to reach their workplace and travel the same distance back to their homes;

    Also, the shops are a few kilometres away from their place of residence a they need to have a two wheeler to travel back and fro even for basic things…!

    The boon and bane of living in a Pind(rural hometown)…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    Un-inventing something…?!

    Hmm; this got me thinking,

    There are things like nuclear bombs that are bad;

    but;

    We are finding good use of them in nuclear power plants that provide a safer form of electricity;

    A non renewable source but its low carbon emissions help our short term goals…!

    So,

    A perfect thing to un-invent; (well I wouldn’t call it un-invent) I’ll search the word later;

    I would remove homelessness;

    It an inverse sense it would mean to make housing affordable for the unfortunate;

    Because there are a lot of things associated with a house, your Id cards, your workplace requires you to have a house to send your paycheque, your bank requires you to have a house where they can send you bank documents like cards and such…!

    Basically your survival is dependent on you having a roof over your head and when even that isn’t available the survival becomes extremely tricky…!

    So making housing affordable,

    Or by un-inventing the insatiable greed that humans have; we would be a great success from the bottom up…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Cold winter mornings and some words from my heart…

    Cold winter mornings and some words from my heart…

    Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A cold Saturday morning that started at 7:34 AM for me, I found myself surrounded by my electronics A tablet, my phones and cables;

    I don’t remember when and how I fell asleep last night without putting my devices on charging and I am waking up with 12% on this device and 15% on the other one…!

    Let’s leave it at that…!(Wait no let me put them at charge first…)

    A Saturday it is and I hope you are in your beds have a quilt over you that is providing much needed warmth in this cold harsh winter morning…!

    There are a few people in my group that become addicted to Old Monk as soon as winter starts to hit them, some just bring one or two bottles of Morpheus(enough to last the whole winter) and take a sip of it in hot water as soon as they start to feel under the weather (Dawa Daaru…) 🥴

    And then there are people like me who just sit in their beds and fall asleep just like that and run on sheer dedication without the support of any external forces to guide them, and when we get sick(Rarely) it usually means running to doctors and pharmacies to get our medicine…!

    This in no way advocates that drinking is good for your health; there are things that won’t ever be good for your health—

    drinking and smoking being a few of them…!

    Coming back to the prompt…!

    A positive example of when I’ve felt loved…!

    How can I say this, but I’ve always been on the short end of the stick; I’ve seen people feel emotional and talk their heart out to me;

    Trust me with their secrets, found acceptance and answers that they weren’t ready for yet…!

    I’ve been the support system for many;

    Some of who are still in contact with me, some who aren’t they too have turned out to be vibrant people; living their life to the fullest and I’m really happy for them…!

    I’ve helped people come out of their slumps, talked them into giving another chance at love and found their partner;

    But;

    Never I’ve been on the long end of the stick,

    I’ve always been the one who lends an ear, hears their heart out, their secrets that will stay with me until the end of me;

    And that doesn’t mean that I haven’t had my share of love;

    I’ve had support of my best friends, my cousins and a loved one who I parted ways years ago; due to reasons….;

    Let’s not go there, it’s supposed to be a happy scenario that we have to paint here…!

    I’ve truly felt loved by someone who stays within this heart even though the distance between us has become too far now;

    Their embrace, their way of talking, the whole person they were they were loved;

    And when that person went from my life it was a wound that never filled…

    (Khair…)

    The loved ones can even be your family who look after you,

    A brother who works hard to make everything happen in the background,

    A mother who prepares meals for you, checks up on your well being when she sees you down,

    A sister who always awaits you, waiting to talk to you, is ready for your defense and even fights those who bring dirt to your name,

    A father who loves you but can’t express it…!

    Maybe you’re surrounded by love,

    but,

    you only want it if it’s coming from a single person,

    And that person isn’t that interested in you…?

    A dangerous situation to be in it would be…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Gratitude and De-cluttering ideas…!

    Gratitude and De-cluttering ideas…!

    Where can you reduce clutter in your life?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A Friday is upon us, all of us are waiting for the work week to be over so we can enjoy the weekend that will give us some break from the cluttered life that we run each and every day…!

    I’d like to thank you,

    All of you from the bottom of my heart for making my last post one of the most liked post on WordPress;

    I know it’s a long way to go but this is the very first time that I had so many people like my post; the last update that I got was at 7:36 Am as I was thinking the concept of this post…!

    There are a few principles I work on,

    One of them being- “keeping my head down and working in silence” until the results show this world the type of person I’ve become following my routine of working hard while staying absolutely silent about all that’s going to happen in the near future…!

    That also means you have to make necessary changes when things don’t seem to work out or you aren’t feeling so much about a specific topic;

    But at last, A perspective of the writer remains, that gives the readers a chance to look into the thought process and makes the conclusion they arrived at a concrete one according to them…!

    And these words once written, become the absolute truth for us because they came from us with confidence and within a confined space called our mind…!

    Enough chatter let’s get back to the prompt of the day…

    Where can I reduce clutter in my life…?

    “What do you mean by clutter..?” This question comes into my mind…

    I mean I set my bed daily, clean my room once a week and try to keep it neat and tidy because once I return from work at 9-9:30 at night I basically have no will left to work or even move my body…!

    A room that looks like this is comes to mind when I picture clutter…!

    I usually have a routine which I follow to reduce clutter in my life;

    • I only buy things when the original one is obsolete and I try to remove it from my presence like if I buy a new phone I try to get rid of the old one by selling it off which chips away some price of the original one…!
    • I tell my family to reduce buying things from markets in plastic bags(readily available here in India, despite the ban); because they clutter up a space and aren’t used anywhere anymore…
    • We try to eat at least one meal together so we can talk about each other and discuss things that are on our minds decluttering our minds and providing each other some insight into each other’s life in some cases help each other out…!
    • I try to go to sleep without having anything playing or watching anything on my tab or phone because it breaks the good sleep cycle that we all need(it doesn’t necessarily happen each day but I’m trying to…)
    • I try to minimise the apps that I am on, which makes it easy for me to post and be aware of things that happen and places that I am supposed to upload daily…
    • I buy clothes only when needed and I spend money on good quality stuff only, I usually check the quality and the type of fabric that it is and if it will work in the long run…!
    • At last I need to control the habit of buying good shoes wherever I see one😓😂

    Usually when you remove the thing that you’re buying a replacement for; once you buy a new one— your life would be much less cluttered;

    Which doesn’t happen in the Indian household I know…😂

    I have a drawer full of wires which I keep on hand in hope that I will use it someday…!

    Someday indeed…

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A gracious steed and breaking the monotony in life…!

    A gracious steed and breaking the monotony in life…!

    What is your favorite animal?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A new day has arrived for all of us, as I’m writing this on a Thursday morning at 7:55 am; I am in a bit of a thought slump myself…!

    I call it thought slump because the Lohri festival got my hopes up and the routine has returned to the same usual rhythm once the festive spirit waived off…!

    I know we as humans have to find happiness in little things that happen around us,

    But;

    Not all days are the same happy go jolly, and not each day the things go right or better than what we have planned;

    Some days I just go to work, keep my head down, work my tail off and return home around 9 at night…!

    Neither are all days are happy ones, nor they are bad;

    Some days just happen and when they happen one after another the fine line between them just blurs away;

    Making us feels like we are continuously living and doing what we do while trapped in a loop…!

    And that thought is scary…!

    When it feels like that, I usually break my routine-

    I take another route to or from my work, or make a stop at a bakery to get something from my family;

    Because without me who do they have…?

    And it brings me at ease when I remember that I went there yesterday or the day before and I make sure to check the day on the calendar when I’m trying to break my routine…!

    Enough chitter chatter about my sad life, let’s get back to the prompt…!

    What would be my favourite animal…?

    My favourite animal would be a horse

    Look at those ears curving inwards…!

    Their beauty which makes them fetch incredible prices and their walk which makes them even more graceful…!

    The use of their strength which pulled us from horse drawn carriages to the revolutionised world that we live in..!

    They are one of the few loyal companions that we can have we even have instances of our Sikh God Guru Gobind Singh Ji’s horse Neela or Nila(translation of the word Neela means the color blue due to the color of the coat of the horse)

    And there are many mentions of their lineage still alive to this day, but the blue color has faded into a grey white…!

    The speeds that they attain when they are raced, also their use in the games of polo today in Rajasthan…!

    A dream come true it would be to see a polo game in this life…!

    There are many instances of them being used in wars too, cavalry warfare was entirely about this, and how they maintained their horses in such conditions that they fought wars on horses and also used guns but they didn’t move one bit during the gunfight…!

    Even this day we have horses that are implemented in the Indian army, which give a lot of grace and respect to the strength that is associated with them…!

    Their value has grown with the types of cross breeding that gives rise to even more powerful horses…!

    I’ve seen the most expensive one go on sale was for 20 crore rupees(approx 2.2 Million USD) the breed were Marwari stallion and the name were Shahbaz(A beautiful looking black stallion) and David(A shiny brown 72” Marwari horse…)…

    On top of that they actually guess what sort of a person you are just by looking at you and they let you touch them only if they like you…!

    A gorgeous steed indeed…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Lohri celebrations and ways to communicate…!

    Lohri celebrations and ways to communicate…!

    In what ways do you communicate online?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Yes, a Lohri update is due and I plan on doing that here itself because a lot of it was extended late until 12 am and I usually go to sleep by 11 or 11:30 pm at night…!

    It was a usual work day and I returned home around 9 pm after making a pit stop to buy milk and some other daily household supplies…!

    As soon as I reached home I assembled the bowl in which we put all of the stuff to offer it to the flame that we light earlier…

    These were the main Ingredients that we bought I know there are a lot of varieties and somewhere within the mix are hidden poha(flattened rice) and til(sesame seeds)…

    We bought all of these things above; if I were to explain rewdi it would be a crisp brittle candy made out of sugar or jaggery coated with sesame seeds…!

    After putting it in the bowl we started to prepare the actual bonfire…!

    We took a deep dish in which people mix cement, and turned it into a hack of a bonfire because the place around is surrounded by marble and a few years back it actually broke the bonfire as it got heated up real quick and cooled down as the temperature reached 5 degrees celsius the next morning…

    The base of it is made using a cloth in which was wrapped camphor and we used matches to light it and thankfully the wood that we had were dry as a bone they lit up real quick…!

    A few additional participants this Lohri…!

    Our dog a beagle he was an active participant chewing on the peanuts and popcorn, he really liked rewdi and went to each one is us to have one…!

    A pic when the initial wood caught on fire…!

    And when the wood caught on fire we took seven rounds around it while we put sesame seeds in it;

    We took a handful of it and walked around the fire while putting it in the fire bit by bit until the rounds completed…!

    And as soon as the seven rounds were over we took both handful of the rewdi, popcorn and peanuts and ate some of it and put the rest gradually in the fire…!

    After that we sat around the fire by putting chairs and took the warmth all within us as we snacked on the tri-mix until we were joined by our neighbour and they sat with us and we talked for hours upon hours about life and happening…!

    Yes the litter around is of the tri mix and the flames were roaring more than usual…!
    One of our dogs a beagle who enjoyed the warmth and snacks from the hands that fed him…!
    Another one of our dogs, a street dog that we rescued and took in; looking up at us with those eyes in a hope that they will grant her with some peanuts…!
    I don’t think you can see it but we did put in a few potatoes wrapped in foil; Do let me know if you can find all five of them…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    Which I almost forgot about…!

    In what ways do I communicate online…?

    Well, communication should happen that’s what matters to me we can talk over text, maybe direct message, WhatsApp, telegram, Instagram chat and so much more more…!

    Any way that feels comfortable to the other person is suitable for me;

    I used to chat on discord with people who formed a group after an app that I was regular on shut down…!

    I prefer to discuss all of it on call because of my business nature, but there are some things that happen over text and I respect the other person’s boundaries too…!

    (Because I’ve been on both the sides…!)

    A meaningful conversation happens any-way when we begin to talk;

    The only problem is that I cannot have a conversation to kill time or pass it just because I’m bored or they’re bored…!

    Maybe that is something that I’d have to look for improving in myself,

    But other than that,

    I’m almost all times open to converse even on topics that spark fear…!

    (**An edit before uploading aren’t we having a conversation here too…?)

    What was left after the night…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍