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  • 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 🤍

  • 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 🤍

  • 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 🤍

  • 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 🤍

  • 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 🤍

  • 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 🤍