Tag: confidence

Being Someone’s Courage and Confidence…

Who is the most confident person you know?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

This day started at 6:43 for me as I forgot to put my tab, laptop, phones and power banks on charging and I spent doing my morning routine of freshening up while putting all of my devices on charge and then I decided to follow my routine of morning walks…!

It’s currently 7:16 in the morning and I’m blessed to have woken up to live another day…!

I really want to tell you all something…;

After talking about how I cope with my negetive feelings in yesterday’s prompt,

I began to be considerate towards the things I mentioned in it with care and much attention,

Like how much they saved my life instead of thinking they were just a part of this life..!

And,

I genuinely felt happy after a long time,

Thinking about how grateful I was for this life…!

I say that because a few people,

Genuine people who are a great part of my life told me that I seem happy and I should keep on doing what I did…

And to my astonishment I don’t know what it was until I started to think about this as I’m writing…!

A sense of security came with that thought and how i acknowledged the things which helped me get through my sad times…!

Coming back to the prompt

Most confident person I know…

I think all of us are confident enough at some aspect of our life—

Imagine thinking about

A Small Business Owner or

A Music Producer or

A CEO of a large MNC

Or

A Singer,

Or a Writer

(Just like you and me…)

All of them are in a position that requires a high level of confidence and certainty in their skill…

Do you think any of this would’ve been possible without taking risks and trusting ourselves with our initial abilities and skills—

on top of that having confidence to start everything of which we once possessed a figment of…!?

And now that all of us are in a position above others,

I look back at my past and think,

What was it that started all of this…?

Was it the love for the language,?

Or

Was it a need to talk to someone when there was none…?

Or

Was it a blessing that I earned from my teachers back in high school for being attentive enough in my English classes…!

Only fate knows what it has planned ahead for it all…

But,

If you look at it from a third person’s point of view,

Imagine someone who thinks you have a good prowess of the language English;

And for them,

You are a big source of confidence and they might take a good skill from you if they are around you…!

Even if it’s not your first, second—

maybe the third language…!

But the fact that you can talk and write in a language that they lack at;

They might look at you like you are the epitome of confidence and someone they aspire to be like…!

And,

If we are in your shoes,

Maybe you work in corporate world,

And

There is a boss that you look upto,

Who you want to be like;

You like how they carry themselves,

When they talk it feels like a free flow of information that is easy to grab…!

And when they speak to you in a quiet setting it feels like a personal win,

Even shadowing someone like that feels you are gaining some momentum from them which makes you feel that you can reach their level someday…!

And if you get into that bosses shoes,

They might have someone they look upto for something that gives them a chance to grow even more…

Now,

Consider yourself in that child’s shoes,

That employee’s shoes or that boss’s shoes…!

When looked up from their pov,

There is something that we have to learn from each of them;

It’s the matter of perspective when it comes to confidence and a confident person…!

A crook might look upto the underboss to learn skills and his confidence to execute someone or do things that are illegal with such ease that it might feel unbelievable…!

No matter where you look,

There’s something to learn and someone to look upto,

Someone to be like,

Someone’s confidence becomes a bar that one wants to cross…!

Unknown to the fact that there might be someone looking up to them and want to be like…!

Isn’t it…?

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

16/03/2026
A deep sleep and an eye catching play…

What was the last thing you did for play or fun?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…

The weekend is upon us and I hope 🤞 you’re free from all the stresses until Sunday afternoon because that’s when reality hits for the most of us…😔😭

The last thing I did for fun was wake up full rested a few years back when I was travelling with my family, I was actually so tired because during the whole trip I was the only one who was awake idk why am I like this but everyone was asleep but as soon as I reached a place known to me I hit the bed around 8pm at night and woke up at 10 am the next day…😳

It was 14 hours of me just sleeping that’s it, there was nothing that woke me up and no one that disturbed me and after I woke up I remember drinking a pitcher full of water;

A whole 2 liter in a single sitting, it felt like I was in the desert for the past hours and my throat was dry and I was hungry so I just drank my fill and woke up well rested…

ONLY THAT DAY AND NEVER AGAIN…

It was a day and a half of travel and I was awake through the night too…

I remember my family telling me that my eyes were bloodshot like there was literal blood running in them, I had indents of my wired earphone on my face and my phone was at 2 percent…

I wish to get that sleep once again…

Well that was a funny back story isn’t it…?

BUT FOR FUN;

I usually watch plays,

The last one was Khichik,

Where I saw a couple and their parting after finding out that they were involved with other after falling in love with each other and them meeting yet again and completing their final years with each other until the main characters passed away one after another…

A beautiful play written by Shiv Subramanyam called snapshots from an album from the book Irani cafe and other plays..

It was the first time I saw Girija Oak Godbole and Ghanshyam lalsa on screen and it was one of the best performances I’ve witnessed;

The director Divya Jagdale did a great job by making the cast work in such a fluid manner that it was breathtaking;

And a proof that I did, I’m attaching the photo of the performance I witnessed…

(Haha to prove my point…)

Happy weekend to those who are celebrating and remember to drink plenty of water of you plan to binge drink or anything and remember buying recovery shots if you step out fill your groceries…

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

In the picture Our national crush Girija Oak Godbole on the right and Ghanshyam Lalsa on the left(a few minutes before the play ends)

A keepsake I bought after the play ended the actual book that the play was taken from…!

20/12/2025
A grocery haul for a typical family…

List your top 5 grocery store items.

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…

Today’s prompt is a weird one, like what does this even compare to, a few prompts back to back were very serious ones and required thinking on a higher level;

But what would be my top five grocery store items…

Well,

My first would be ready to cook pasta, not any specific type but all of them elbow, penne, fusilli, bow tie, spaghetti and so much more;

They are versatile and go well with anything that you cook and they are easy to snack on and filling if cook properly…

Second thing would be some sort of chicken, maybe it’s kebab or some cold cuts or even packed chicken breasts that can be whipped into some sort of curry or something of a semi dry dish like marry me chicken or even something that can be turned into fried chicken tbh the variety is never ending…

Third thing would be herbs and dried spices, if we are starting from scratch it would mean we need to have all of the things that are required to have a proper grocery run and one time purchase of these things can last a month too;

I mean turmeric, Kashmiri red chilli(for color), standard red chilli which gives it the kick that it needs, cumin seeds, ginger powder, black peppercorns, cinnamon bark, clove, cardamom , mustard seeds, coriander seeds, fennel seeds and lastly star anise;

All of these are a must have if you plan on making a grocery run for the very first time…

Fourth wound be veggies, a staple would be potatoes, onion, ginger and garlic, tomatoes, cabbage, carrots, mushroom(if the price is right) green peas, capsicum, cauliflower and spinach if the seasons are right…(do I need to explain these…?)

The last would be pulses and being from India at least one time of cooked food has some sort of pulse wherever you go, imagine going to eat something South Indian food the staple idli and dosa including sambhar is made using pulses like rice and black gram(called urad dal here in our country…)

Some other would be chickpea, kidney beans red lentil, peas, black eyed peas( called lobiya),split yellow peas, mixed pulses, mung beans, moth beans and so much more…

I forgot to add eggs and that is very shameful for me because I have one every morning and almost forgot about them(P.s. a sixth edition from my side)

With these five((6)) things you can conquer any of these recipe that works for you…

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

19/12/2025
Men who shaped my life

Describe a man who has positively impacted your life.

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…

There are a few men in my life who have guided me in a positive direction and given me a way to live this life in a much better way…

The first one would be my late father, who was one of the pillars in my life he shaped my existence (literally) and taught me how to be a better person by just being present in my life and acting like a good father figure to look up to, even though we had limited time with each other,

There are some decisions of his that I question myself but those were taken keeping in mind my future and the future of our family-led business…

But I’m really grateful that whatever time we had together was spent in happiness and neutrality…

The second one would be my father’s brother, my uncle; he is the one who taught me all the business that our family has to date, and he taught me the basics and the complex things of the business that we now run together;
He imparted me the sense of respect and how to please a client and negotiate what feels best for us (margin-wise) without having to cut deep into the pockets of any of our potential client a time of five years under his guidance gave me a different perspective at life also the shoes he had to fill when he was a child forced into this business too…

The last one would be my friends, without them I’m just a wandering soul on this planet, they keep me grounded and also help me achieve what I am capable of there are so many instances that have shaped me that happened just between my friends which gave me a new perspective on life itself;

They are with me when there was no one, and they shall be with me until the end of me…

These were the few men who positively impacted my life…

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

18/12/2025
A dream postponed to 2027..

Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…

Have you ever thought about not being alive to see yourself the next year…?

I know it’s a dangerous situation but a lot was going wrong then a bad relationship, not having a sense of direction, spending most of my time tirelessly working and not enjoying it at all, I was stuck in a constant loop of working and working my butt off until I was tired enough to gobble food and drop dead asleep…

A bad time it was,

I also prepared for myself a dream which came to a halt somewhere in the middle of this year because my sister found the right match for herself and we have planned to get her married next year…

So all of my dreams and aspirations that I had for this year, they’ve taken a back seat and other ones have taken their place as priority,

Which will take more time a good half of the year 2026 I assume,

But after that, I’m free to dream and perform according to my aspirations,

(This might be a far-fetched idea because there are a lot of expenses that come after the wedding too, we have to go there they will come here, and many others will stay here for a few days and some will plan to go there too,

A few more rituals and plans will follow…)

Maybe I will be free next year the same time to plan my year 2027…

Haha 😂

Well life it is and in it we shall flow,right…?

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

17/12/2025
In your ethics or not..?

What skills or lessons have you learned recently?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…

Life is said to be lessons strung together if you ask me to be honest, each day I learn something new, a new perspective to look at things and observing people gives me insight into the behaviour which in turn helps me to write better…

A lesson that I’ve learnt recently would be,

“If it’s not in your ethics you can’t change it until something of the same degree is endured by you sparking the said change…”

The ethics that you once fixed for yourself long before you even knew what they were, shaped your entire life that you live ahead…

For example, if you think that you can change a functioning adult just by talking to him about their drinking habit or someone’s addiction to smoking which they have done for many years now;

Something like that won’t be easily shaken just by talking about it or just letting them be, it often develops into something serious before we can even consider it as an addiction ourselves;

Maybe it’s just drinking now later it would be hard drugs and later to fuel the craving of it selling all of the things that one sees around them and once the possessions are sold the person becomes even more dependent on it making them do bad things and ill deeds to fuel it yet again…

Hence it has to be in your ethics to know when to stop and what not to do even a single time, guided by ethics they will push you to not do certain things that help you in the long run…

Of course, an addict won’t know anything about ethics but once in it everything seems out of reach, but the proper ethics would push you not to continue a path that would take you down in such a way;

A seed of ethics is important to protect yourself from things that might diminish your life…

I hope this is a turning point in someone’s life, a tad bit of long read…

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye🤍

16/12/2025
What Improves with Age? Discovering Taste, Wisdom, and Confidence

Daily writing prompt
What do you think gets better with age?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…

There are a few things that get better with age,
that I can think of,
at this very instant…

Taste…

Your preferences become more filtered,
instead of the crude and in their raw versions they were before;

You acquire taste in various fields like,
Music, fashion, food and art,
and these choices become yours,
because they are acquired through trial and err,
and they now show a great part of you…

Wisdom and a vision for perspectives…

As you grow and work,
you gain skill,
an insight into seeing the bigger picture,
even the missing one which you have to create to achieve that level,
But,
that does mean giving up on things that are unimportant at that time,
which can cause you to feel left alone or isolated,
because things like these aren’t visible in the early years of life,
and if it were,
you’d most probably spending much time alone contemplating them,
by planning ahead from an early age…

Controlled grip on emotion…

As you age and get reality checks,
setbacks that make you realize your position,
In life and in society,
capping your goals and framing your life within a few things that were within your reach,
you start to understand and have your views on things,
and when you come to know the actual reality of those around you,
the different way they are bound to you,
some just like you…

then you gain control over your emotions and built a stamina for it,
which makes it harder for you to take an unnecessary fall,
which can be made on early deductions…

Foods and beverages…

There are certain things,
certain foods and drinks that become your acquired taste,
like fine wine and pairing it with specific cheeses;

Taste of truffles is one of them,
it feels weird at first and after consuming it often,
it becomes a taste that suits your palate…

Just like wine,
the taste of good whiskey is acquired through many trials and errors,
you try expensive whiskey and drink it using some ice and little water,
and it doesn’t hit you back like the cheap ones usually do,
their buzz is consistent and not something that becomes a high or low within a matter of few minutes,
But,
that doesn’t mean it’s good for you;

Anything and everything in moderation is better…

Awareness of self and boost in confidence…

With age,
one becomes adamant on their rules and regulations that work for them,
all of the outside judgment is ignored,
and one becomes more comfortable in their own skin;

Which in turn builds confidence,
by not having a constant pressure of surroundings,
and growing at a pace that seems comfortable for self,
which sparks this feeling that’s-

“MORE ABOUT KNOWING LESS ABOUT PROVING”

with that being said,
these are the things that I think,
get better with age,
What about you,
do mention them in the comments below…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye🤍

11/07/2025