Invent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate.
Hey…
I hope all of you are doing well…
I’d like to point out this days prompt, there are other holidays too, there were people who were pioneers who shaped our city our country this entire world too,
But even on their birthday or the day they passed away we continue to live our lives without giving any single thought as to who they were and what they achieved in their life which continues to affect us till this day…
How one celebrates is entirely upto them if one feels that they can live their life fully by shutting themselves in,
Or by taking a few more hours of sleep,
Even an extra long bath,
There are so many little things that affect our lives in the long run that we forget to live them…
It might be spending time with a loved one or visiting family that lives far just for a single day…
A holiday that would be spend according to your own needs would be a holiday in actuality, no matter what the mind desires and it’s able to achieve/do that…
That’d be the holiday where you can follow your own routine that you make for yourself and nothing matters to anyone but you…
A dream holiday where everyone does what they want at their own pace
“A holiday catered to your own needs”
(A new week is upon us and I hope it’s a smooth sail ahead…)
Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live?
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I hope all of you are doing well…
(I hope Halloween went for all those who celebrated..)
I’d love to live a specific age in my life once again, well tbh I’m not that old yet but there’s an age which I’d like to return once and live my life to the fullest…
It would be my childhood i.e. the age when I was between 6 years to 12 years, because I see people remember their childhood,
but I really have no clue as to what my childhood was or what were my quirks or things that I used to do…
I’ve seen people remember their childhood with photos and memories, but it’s all a hazy flashbacks for me, every once in a while someone will ask how my childhood was and I’d remember bits and pieces of it nothing more ;(
I know it might feel sad to hear, but when you actively fight for survival after being the sole earner, things tend to fall apart real soon…
Every once in a while someone in my family will say do you remember that (A core memory from my childhood)..?
I’d shake my head and agree with them even if they lie through their teeth, because I have little to no recollection of what happened back then…
It’s sad and disappointing but that’s how it is for me, so I’d like to live my childhood once again…
Cheers (To some dreams that might come true in the near future) 🥂
There’s so much fascinating things that happened in our past that piques my interest, but if I were to point out a single one of them it would definitely be partition of my country INDIA…
Aftermath of that are still faced to this day, I’ve seen people without purpose and reason just existing on this side and on the other side too, sometimes all one does is question themselves are they born on the right side…?
Being from a family whose ancestors travelled from what is now Pakistan and settled here in India a sense of love and friendship still exists somewhere in this heart of ours, even though a lot of bloodshed happened in retaliation of which we also picked arms and caused harm of equal or more intensity…
Imagine leaving your friends, your ancestral home, your neighbours, your world behind and travelling beyond the line that was etched onto a map and now enforced by setting up boundaries and on it army personnel letting you pass only after checking…
It was chaos, there was so much loss and the place that my ancestors settled was covered in grass that was as high as knees length which contained mutilated body parts of the people who resided here before us who became victim of the violence that took place which uprooted them from the very place that they settled in to raise their young ones…
It was such a horrific incident that the survivors still tell us the tales of the horrors they saw from their very two eyes and all of it plays in their mind like it happened last night…
A truly horrible happening that shaped our very core, fascinating all those who decide to step into this thought of process and try to feel how they must have endured it all…
What’s something you believe everyone should know.
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I hope all of you are doing well…
Something that I believe that everyone should know is human nature and its repeated cycle…
If a person has wronged you or even something simple like making delays in giving payment for a job that has already been done(from a business pov)..
They will often repeat this behaviour again in the near future and until you continue to be in business with them, always something will come up, always something will happen;
One day it will be something the next day it will be something else until you take on a crude form and make them agree on your terms…
Same thing happened with me the day before, an old client with such behaviour took some material that our company prepared and it took him a whole month before he came back to pay the dues,
(Even in that he held back a few hundred just because it was a big deal)…
But making them understand that the payment was due for a whole month and the money received at that point would have been utilised in a way that it would have grown by some significant amount until yesterday
But all of these things go over their heads, like I spoke in a language unknown,
As they drove off and I returned with the payment there was a sense of relief that that there was one less persons to worry about brought me some ease…
In a few weeks another order will be placed and its payment will be delayed just like the usual but I do plan to make sure that I receive it on time if I hand it over in person and I can receive the payment in full without waiting,
But not everything goes to plan right…?
Until next time where we can learn something new about the cyclic nature of human and the way they make excuses to get out of situations by giving excuses…
Cheers🥂
Love Waakiye 🤍
What does it mean to be a kid at heart?
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I hope all of you are doing well…
To be a kid at heart 🤔 it seems like a very tricky question because it depends on what time in life do you ask this question to a person…
Imagine asking this to a 18 year old who just passed school and now has plans to attend college to further continue their studies or tries to get into a work college to learn and tackle real life skills while working and learning the also earning something for the family
Their response would naturally differ because one where they attend normal college they would still have some innocence, they’d be playful, a little immature and even make mistakes along the way,
But someone who has joined work school/college due to some circumstances they wouldn’t be shaped that way, their first few adult years of upbringing would be much harsher as they would be guided and taught and made aware of the world much sooner than a normal kid would…
Now imagine asking this to a person who is is their mid 30’s working in a corporate world their response would be someone who is a kid at heart would have been exploited a whole lot, a lot of responsibilities would have been given to them(not necessarily belonging to them) and their emotions and their innocence played by many just to get their work done or taken advantage of (in a bad way)…
Now asking this to someone who is in their mid 50’s would be a gem to hear,
They’d start it like,
“Oh to be a kid at heart it would mean the world to them, during their times it was all they could do, they used to play with neighbouring kids and used to do all the fun activities together, take on adventures, watching episodes on tv together, playing console games and so much…
And sometimes it feels like it never goes away, the innocence that someone carries with themselves and how they take care of those around them and feel vulnerable when someone raises their voice at them but at the end of the day they come back in a way to mediate all that happened even if it weren’t their fault…
For me to be a kid at heart is a bad thing, perhaps when you are soft spoken worry to much about other and give other priority by giving yourself a back seat in your own life all one is doing is let them take advantage of your state or the place of mind that you are right now,
Most importantly people skip things make mistakes and tell sorry and such people make mistakes and count on your innocence and your nature of forgiveness more often…
With such a thing comes both ups and downs well such a thing exists and you can find it in people many times,
But it’s upto you to embrace this quirk of theirs or take advantage of it for your own shallow benefits…
Cheers 🥂
Love Waakiye 🤍
Hey…!
I hope all of you are doing well…
There were a lot of things going on not positive and to push myself in a direction away from the chaos I had to take some time to think about setting things in order before proceeding ahead and as those things came falling like they used to earlier…
If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite?
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I hope all of you are doing well…
There was a family tradition that used to take place earlier in our family, we used to get together, have drinks, cook our own food, some it was store bought, and it only required heating it a little bit..
But, it was like once maybe twice a year kind of tradition which used to take place at our residence, but people used to come from faraway places, even from neighboring states, a day or two before…
We used to have music, and used to hit steps after getting a bit tipsy, but, all in everyone enjoyed to their fullest, there would be people sitting in the corner eating and drinking, talking to each other, I would occasionally check on them and get them anything they needed, and they’d thank me for it, and the smile would stay on my face the entire night…
Until, the latter half on ’23, after battling for an entire year, and losing at the end, the life was never the same, all the point of get-together became a sham, there was no happiness whatsoever, all the sense, essence of happiness or get-together was lost, as he left us…
So, I’d invite my now deceased father, and revive the long-lost tradition of having the grand dinner once again, Or teach us how we could continue without the loss of someone so dear to our hearts, where all of us would get together, and enjoy to our fullest, once again, yet again…
What strategies do you use to increase comfort in your daily life?
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I hope all of you are doing well…
There are many strategies that I employ to make my life more comfortable, well not just mental comfort but my physical comfort too…
Daily Journaling…
One of the things that I do each day is by writing about it in my journal, and each day I read the last one, helping me determine the habits that I have, and which of them make my life better, or provide me an insight that helps me to avoid something that disrupts it…
Basking and Meditation…
On waking up, I go to my balcony and look at the sunlight, or the natural light peering through the clouds, which reminds me that the sleep is finally over as I spend a few minutes in the sunlight, someday sitting down on a mat in the balcony and meditating and reflecting on the day ahead, the types of work I have to involve myself in, and the roles I have to play this day…
Clean living atmosphere…
One of the most important things is to have a clean environment, this isn’t just about having clean surroundings or your vicinity, but my room is where it all begins from, a clean room, which isn’t messy, and the soft lighting that imitates the sunlight is used to illuminate my room; This simplifying of my environment makes it much easier to live a life that feels fulfilling and worth living tbh…
Getting to bed early…
Getting my good 7-8 hours of sleep, even if it means getting to bed and falling asleep at ten maybe 11 at night, because a good sleep helps me wake up refreshed, and with new ideas that help me on the daily, living this fast-paced life at my own pace, and with that sleeping in early comes in waking up early to involve myself in some physical activity like walking or taking a stroll around the building complex, which boosts my metabolism and gives me a chance to be one with nature early in the morning…
These are some of the ways I increase comfort and at the same time better my life with the help of options that suit me the best..!
Do you have a routine like this which helps you, Do let me know…!
Well, when the topic of authority comes in, I like to think it this way, one can never master a skill, no matter how much time they spend on it, but, a level of expertise comes in, after dabbling in a single field…
After spending around three years, and writing at least half a million to quarter of million words, and given countless of them to writers and individual organizations, it’s safe to say there’s some level of authority that I have been blessed with, (On this), But, even saying this feels wrong to me, because there is so much yet to be done, so much yet to be achieved from this, and coming from a background that has nothing to do with this, makes it hard as the way has to be paved as I walk on it, for someone to follow the same…
The field that I’m working in other than this, makes it polar opposite, Working in an industry where I learn new things each day, and return home drenched in sweat and covered in a layer of soot, but, even there, the learning continues on, and it happens on the daily, a new way to achieve results quicker and cheaper, this tussle continues each day, tomorrow too, and the day after too…
So, the struggle continues each day, both ways, But it’s a good life, that continues perpetually…
You must be thinking that, I must, I really would have people I look upto , admire and would want to be like, but, there in reality, there are none…
There are a few whom i read, who pushed me into a direction to work hard, write with consistency, explore different avenues of life, to be a better person on a whole…
But, really there are none whom i admire, there wasn’t someone who would guide me to write, even if i am grateful for people who pushed me in this direction, but, admiration per se? that, i think is earned when someone looks at you, looks up to you from the bottom up…
But, I’ve taken my steps looking at something far beyond a person, or what anyone is capable of, so, I’ve yet to find someone i admire, from the bottom of my heart…
Till i find someone….!
Cheers 🥂
Love Waakiye 🤍
Now this is something that i call an inspiration, or a source of one, the moon its serenity is something that i admire forever, a countless number of images in my phone you’ll find of the same, much thanks to the world for existing and letting us witness the beauty it possesses…
Waakiye 