There are a few sentences that i live by, they aren’t necessarily quotes, but they’re self-drawn rules that I live by, Well, I think each and every one of us should have some, rules or something that helps you set, what is right or wrong, in a situation…
Quotes are those who are written by a writer and such, and when you are one in the making, what’s better than looking at something that you wrote, to keep yourself in check, during times that you thought would be the end of you…
The said quote(s)…
1)
THE FALL TAUGHT ME TO GET UP AND MOVE FORWARD,
IT DIDN’T TELL ME TO STOP AND SIT DOWN,
IT TOLD ME THE REASON FOR THE FALL,
AND I DIDN’T STOP LEARNING,
NOR I’M STOPPING,
DIDN’T STOP YESTERDAY,
WILL NOT STOP TODAY,
WONT STOP TOMORROW,
BECAUSE,
I DIDN’T STOP LEARNING…
★Didn’t stop learning★
2)
CAN’T CRASH OUT
CAN’T CRASH OUT
CAN’T CRASH OUT
CAN’T CRASH OUT
CAN’T CRASH OUT
CAN’T CRASH OUT
CAN’T CRASH OUT
CAN’T CRASH OUT
CAN’T CRASH OUT
CAN’T CRASH OUT
CAN’T CRASH OUT
CAN’T CRASH OUT
✅CAN THUG MY WAY OUT OF THIS ONE, SO
I WON’T CRASH OUT
These two are the ones I often check out, there are more but those are some other ideas, prompting some other feelings…
For the time being, you can read them, save them, make them your quotes too…
Cheers 🥂
Love Waakiye 🤍
This is exactly how it feels when some prompt like this comes in… (Ai generated image…)
The use of social media has changed significantly for me in the past couple of years. From the outside perspective, it would look like a drastic change.
Earlier I used to spend a lot of time on social media. I was just scrolling away from one app to another. but, these days it’s the polar opposite…
Any spare time I have is spent jotting down ideas. I feel these ideas will hit the right bone, or they will help develop my consciousness. This will give me a better insight into someone’s life…
Initially, I used it just to chat my time away. But this social media has helped me meet beautiful souls who aren’t just expressive. They are also much better writers than I am. Because of social media, we managed to connect with each other.
I would be here writing, editing, and making images just for my social media handles. Also, I would also be working on my blog. It was like shooting arrows in the dark…
I still haven’t got used to the type of change it has brought. I have had to undergo many changes to become a better version of myself. All for the best, isn’t it …?
Cheers 🥂
Love Waakiye 🤍
What we see here is an effort to grow from a point where even the mere thought of existence is a threat, but here we still are, still trying to make the best out of the situation that this life throws us in, and just like this bud growing from a crack in the wall, this seed has had a life too, and, I wish to hear his side of the story too…
The prompt of this day, forced me to think the duality of the life I am living…
One where I manage and run a business, another one where I do all of this writing, it has been a chaotic mix of feeling thing and tirelessly working my b|_|tt off..
All of us know that living two lives within these 24 hours isn’t possible but we all have to manage right…?
The most productive I am during work is the afternoon hours, i.e. 12 pm to 3 pm, but, it’s the exact opposite for this writing between 12 am to 3 am;(IST)
Waking up early to set things in order, and then working on them including this blog, and Instagram post before I have to leave for work, the fine line between night and day blemishes, and for weeks it feels like I haven’t taken a day off, but, the show must go on…
So, I think you get a gist of the type of broken schedule I live on, necessarily the dependent on caffeine is hard and takes a toll on this mind and body too…
But, both parts of my life requires different strengths, different capabilities, very drastic shifts in focus, and, with that I need to have a very cool, calm and a composed mind…
But, from the chaos that I’m in, generates a world so vivid and well versed, that it feels almost surreal..
And, this is the type of blessing I seeked all along, to live a vivid, beautiful life with, hard work too so i can get a good nights sleep…
Cheers 🥂
Love Waakiye 🤍
That’s how I am staring at nothingness some of these days…
Today’s prompt forced me into exploring my notes app and the pad that I carry on me, he|| even the conversations I’ve had with people up until this point…
It was and has been a fever dream of sorts, I’ve talked on human psychology (of all age),
I’ve talked about love, pretty vocal about two people meeting and some intimate scenes too, (I don’t know if they are safe to upload here…?)
I’ve talked about addiction (its consequences too…) and numerous stories about people finding true love, some about losing their better halves, and many losing their lives too…
There were many a things that shaped me into who i am today and i utilize them wholly even the little things that i see as I’m driving from or to work…
But all of this for a cause greater than life itself, to provide each and every one of you a version of life that’s unseen from a place that isn’t explored by many, even if we all have it, what we call our mind…
It is maybe due to meeting people from so many different fields, some being doctors, aspirants of government jobs, psychology students, teachers of high schools, businessman/women and many more that are skipping my mind…
All in, it has been a journey that is to be remembered forever, and it shall be with the type of influence I’ve got from these godsend people…
Cheers 🥂
Love Waakiye 🤍
This is the one place where I found myself, the essence of self, the being that I am today, there were a lot of problems that came within the path of reaching this place, but when I stood there, and took this picture the breathtaking view absorbing all of it in, it felt like I found a new love for the things the same things that existed back home…
When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out?
Hey,
I hope you all are doing well…!
One of the biggest risks that I’ve taken on till date is to start all of this,
Yes, this writing;
No one in my family had what is called a said knack for writing,
So, All I’ve been doing is hitting it day in day out, without skipping one day,
Also managing my business where I work by hand (because I love to do that…)
There isn’t any said time that I can afford to take out of my day for writing specifically,
but, the ideas that I jot down in my note’s app are really good ones, and one day I will start to share them in the form of stories or maybe some short one-two liners that work here…
Part of the risk is that some days these posts have a better reach, even though I just reached 20 posts here last morning, But,
Being a writer means that you have to tackle this world along with the fight that goes on within, to be expressive sometimes vocal about your dreams and wants,
But,
At the end of the day you can get a good night’s sleep knowing you wrote and expressed how you felt, and maybe changed an aspect of someone reading your posts…
Cheers 🥂
Love Waakiye 🤍
There’s no such thing as the next moment, until there’s a proof of existence that was acknowledged by someone around you, i.e. your proof of existence is confirmed by those who are around you who know you, like you; and when one shall return to the form that it all began from their presence shall be remembered and the words unspoken shall be regretted forever…
Even though I’m quite a reserved person, there are some things that give birth to nervousness within me….
Being the person that I am, I’m not that open to new experiences and if I want to experience new ones, it feels like my mind already has planned all of the outcomes even before I am to undergo the “Said” experience…
For example;
I once went to a theatrical play and I was running late, I had a fixed seat which I booked a few weeks in advance.
On reaching there a little late, the host had already opened with the introductions.
…….
As I entered and looked for my seat and saw someone else sitting in mine, on telling them this was my seat,
He told me he had a seat in the middle somewhere which he booked outside the hall, can I take that one..?
On telling him that I couldn’t because I booked this seat weeks prior and I will sit here;
Nervousness creeped in as he didn’t get up even after asking politely, and after that in a stern voice, after a few moments the staff came in as he stated to raise his voice against me.
Knowing this was a public place, and they reserved the right for our admission, as I showed them the ticket and he was politely told to go to his seat, which he refused.
On pausing the play for a moment all the lights were lit, and the said person was told to move to his seat or to be escorted out of the venue by security.
The smug look on his face now wiped clean as he murmured something in his mouth and squeezed himself to his seat in the middle..
That thing made me quite nervous.
But thankfully I booked in advance and the staff were really helpful…!
Overall, A good day that was.
Apart from me losing my sh|t there.
Cheers 🥂
Love Waakiye
The first pic I took as I reached the destination after transversing through roads that were small and had a great abyss on the other side; the hazy memories of those times stay just like these pictures in my mind!!!
Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you.
Hey,
I hope you all are doing well…!
This is a basic idea The relatives (from your extended family) are the absolute worst people because they pray for your downfall, just because you’re doing a bit better than them..
But,
There’s a cousin sister that I have; She has been an absolute blessing for me because she has been there for me at times when I couldn’t write or do anything..!
It was her who pushed me into this direction; to write to be expressive to read more books, To write random scribbles that come to my mind, I still have that old notebook with me where all of this began…
It was her in our family who pursued English honors and masters and has a good job educating students,
To be honest even I became a student of her’s in this way, and learnt a lot, She bought me G0d knows how many books some of which are still left unread, but all of this- Planting a seed of this writer belongs to her and the nurturing of it belongs to yours truly…
It has been quite a while that i sent her some of my work that i wrote these past few weeks sometimes i upload it on platforms other than this blog, but this is a place i can certainly call mine and be truly expressive without any boundaries;
And i really thank the powers involved and my curious mind for being on the toes and always ready to learn something new, just for the heck of it…
Cheers 🥂
Love Waakiye
A canvas blank this world is, the thoughts and ideas that exist beyond the horizons of our mind, always a quest to conquer, this ever going conquest called our life…
Theres a reason I don’t go without a face mask outside my house, I might not be popular in any way but I have a lot of people that recognize me from way back, and to be honest being disregarded for being myself for the last two years, I chose to cut everyone but two, they’re my brothers and i shall till the end of time be available for them because they were too…
This is something that happened 8 years back and i still remember it crystal clear as it happened just yesterday…
There was a program that was supposed to take place in our high school and being one of those who was supposed to be a part of the management (student board), it was mine and this one girl’s duty to manage the smooth flow of the entire program without any complications;
Tbh I have been the type of person who loves to work alone, that way I can control all the variables and get the work done faster than having to spend time discussing and waiting for a half-baked response that would have no base or wouldn’t even have any concrete base…
Thats the type of person i was back then still am…
It was the schedule of this program we were told four weeks in advance that it was supposed to take place, and we were to work however we could within the school provided budget, so there were these 3 weekends that were in between the date we were told it was supposed to take place thinking we had enough time i took it to myself to budget, thinking of equipment that we’d require and had to acquire and all the technical things…
During our lunch break a girl from the board visited me being from the other stream, on enquiring about what was needed she told me to come to the cafeteria area during the last period if it was free, coincidentally it was free as the teacher that we had was on leave during that time;
On finding her waiting, the cute face, cat eyed glasses, grey and white school dress, and simplistic watch on her left hand in which she held an apple which she was gnawing on every other minute;
Being the socially awkward person I was back then, I just came up to her and put my bag down in front of her, we exchanged greetings and i asked “if the was something that she needed from the cafeteria?”
On hearing my offer,she thought to herself a bottle of apple ocean would be nice…! I said okay and got up and went to the stall that had what we needed…
As i returned with two coffees and a bottle of electrolyte water, she was surprised of sorts, no-one brought her things she said on a whim, but she did thank me for it…
As we began discussing the plan, how and what we would need for the smooth flow of the plan, before any other thing could leave her mouth, I handed her the document requiring all of the stuff needed, all the people that we needed to contact and along with it their contact details, and minimum budget required for all of the things and with them the alternatives if the one mentioned weren’t available;
Reading the document of 10 pages and in awe of me she asked “if i knew this was supposed to take place weeks before because all of us were told yesterday only…?
Yeah i told her slyly as i already knew something like this was supposed to happen around this time watching it from last 3 years and all of our seniors butchered it ruthlessly…
So I prepared it weeks before and finalized it yesterday, … There was silence for a few minutes as she scanned the document, and in awe she looked at me the moments after as I had cracked open my cold coffee and began sipping it;
How…? How do you already have things ready on which we have to spend the next week and a half…? We have all that we want and need, for the entirety of the plan, all that remains is going to the places, negotiating and buying the things that are needed, which could be done over this weekend…!!!
How did you manage all of this that too all on your own…?
That’s how it has been from the past 1.5 years, I’ve given my very best and you know how smooth the fest has taken place the last year too…
Before coming to you, I submitted a copy to the president of the student board and the teacher in charge too…
Is there something else that you needed…?
NO, I mean yeah, I thought we’d spent time jotting down things needed and spend actual time buying and arranging all of the items and such…
That is something that can be left on the teachers and upper management, the final negotiation and things are to be approved by them only..!
I pushed the other coffee that I bought towards her and as she opened it her face sulking as she took a sip out of it…
Having zero clue what has happened and what was supposed to happen, as the last bell rang, marking the day to be over…
I started to pack my things, As I told her, “there’s an afternoon class that I am supposed to take, and if i didn’t leave within 10 minutes I’d be late to that…”
Having no clue what has happened, she also packed her bag and started to stand up and walk towards the gate with me…
And on reaching outside the gate, my path went to the left and Her’s to the right,
In a low voice she hummed, “If you wouldn’t have done all of that we could spend the weekend discussing and planning all of it over the weekend at each other’s place or some cafe…”
HUH?, I asked, is there something that you’d like to add or remove from the list, maybe we can discuss it over call or something…?
Her mind running haywire that her plans were spoiled, She ignored my last line.. (My mind thinking she was trying to leech off my work just by being seen with me working on something…)
As we parted ways, She began walking down her and I went down mine, She met one of her friends and I met one of mine, Looking back at each other our eyes met…
NEVER TO MEET AGAIN..
(How stupid it was of me…)
Cheers🥂 (To the fool I was back then…)
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“Ever had a moment like this , when you realized something too late? Drop a comment, I’d love to hear your version of what could’ve been.“
Love Waakiye
This is exactly how I walked my way back home that day and whenever I remember how much I fumbled back then….
Hey, how are you guys doing? i hope all of you are doing well…
Do you ever wonder why we feel an urge to unwind, why are we so overworked, why do we feel dead when we return home, indulge in some vices, eat and then fall asleep…?
Thats what the essence of us humans have been reduced to..?
I’m talking from experience I get up around 7 and do my morning routine, and when i look up its around time to leave for work, tripping over things in a rush i get ready and leave for work, where i endlessly tire myself for 10+ hours 6 days a week…
I mean if that’s what i have to do to earn my keep i shall do it till the end of time or the end of me…
But, the unwinding from the day’s stresses has a lot of meaning for me, somedays i just open a bottle of liquor, somedays its just me taking a scenic route back home, somedays its just having a cup of tea/coffee from the place that i am a frequent of, somedays i just talk to my friend and make plans for the day off that coincides with our plans, somedays i just watch come serial/movie that piques my interest, somedays it’s just taking pictures of things that bring peace to me..
Somedays it just me rotting in bed scrolling through a bunch of apps endlessly like the life that i live in, and that brings me no happiness at all, it’s something that i do till my eyes shut down on their own…
You know proper unwinding is only when you feel refreshed from the last day’s chaos, but that hasn’t happened in so long that it feels like a foreign concept, nothing that I could ever achieve…
To the life that is remaining which shall be spent chasing things that bring peace…
Cheers 🥂
An image that exists on a day that was so tiring that it almost took my life, as I was driving back home I saw these exact colors and hues, so I stopped and took a pic to remember this day and end it on a higher note…
Waakiye 