Waakiye

Tag: daily life journal

  • Astute observations and sensible chuckles…

    Astute observations and sensible chuckles…

    What makes you laugh?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It’s currently 7:44 in the morning and it’s a fast paced Sunday for me…

    It’s about to be 8 in a couple of minutes and the rest of the day will run fast too;

    I cannot tell you why is that,

    But I do remember making a post about time quickening;

    And I’ll attach the link below 👇

    Already answered prompts and the Time Quickening…!

    A topic that I answered some time back when a string of already answered prompts came to me…!

    (Khair…)

    It was a mildly busy day yesterday;

    A few jobs that we had to finish by the evening,

    And it was safe return back home;

    I don’t remember much about last night tho,

    Eating food,

    Roaming a bit and writing something about the situation that is going on right now and then falling asleep with my phone in my hand;

    On waking up at 3:53 to the sounds of dogs howling and finding no one I came back and tried to fall asleep,

    But that didn’t happen for at least half an hour;

    So I picked up my phone and on seeing 25% I put it on my wireless charger and picked my other phone up…!

    After scrolling reels for half hour,

    I fell asleep again and woke up at 7 in the morning…

    And here we are—

    Coming back to the prompt

    What makes me laugh…?

    I really don’t know…!

    Thinking on the top of my head it would be some funny videos,

    Particularly if I were to mention a duo,

    It would be from Albela TV;

    Mainly Saleem albela and Goga Pasroori ;

    They are a duo from Pakistan and they put themselves in situations and tease each other by taking jabs at each other in jokes;

    Which are called Jugat or चुटकुले in Hindi…

    —

    When I’m down or feeling sad or bad,

    I usually watch a video or two by them and all sadness fades away as I laugh so hard each time…!

    Other than that,

    When I’m with my friends,

    And people who I deeply love and care for;

    —

    We usually end up in laughter each time we meet talking about the situation we are in and the funny things that happen to us;

    The jokes deepen and we end up stopping each other to catch our breaths…!

    Other than that,

    I look at the conditions that we have pulled ourselves in by our representatives that we chose and brought to power;

    The increase in crime and rising hatred towards each other(specifically women and girls child)

    It is a blessing of those people who advocated that survival is trivial and by saying

    “हमारा देश खतरे में है,

    हिंदू धर्म खतरे में है…!”

    —

    But,

    When you look at it from afar,

    You see all of the high level positions taken up by Hindu;

    —

    So you’d think they’d at least be secure of the fact that they are safe and none of their people in their surroundings would give up on them…?

    But,

    It doesn’t work like that,

    They feel fear and incite it amongst the masses…

    —

    And there are people who believe that there is fear and that fact is funny to me;

    —

    Funny to a point that I have a sensible chuckle about it that never in my life have I seen such a blatant disregard towards other people who don’t belong to the same religion as you…!

    A thought that lingers longer than it should in my mind…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • When compliments don’t feel like them…!

    When compliments don’t feel like them…!

    What was the best compliment you’ve received?

    Hey..

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It’s 7:58 in the morning as I’m writing this…

    After spending most of yesterday’s working hours getting the metal pipes changed that bring us water from main water lines which corroded over the years;

    I wanted to completely shut down when I came back at our premises at 6 but I got some orders which needed preparations and when that happens we have to stay on our feet and note each and every detail…!

    So I reached home around 8 and it was showing on my face because everyone around me asked if I was okay…?!

    Did something happen or did someone say anything to me…?

    On saying no and sitting next to me and enquiring about my day they assumed it was tiredness and let me rest after telling me to have dinner…!

    My mom last left the room and she kissed me on my head and said,

    “Where would we go without you beta…?”

    And my sister walked in too as she was saying that, without knocking of course,

    And,

    She sat on the corner of my bed and said,

    “May G0d give you everything that you have on your mind and in-turn you give me money…!”

    That empty room filled with laughter,

    I was reminded the real people who I was grateful for and who I did everything for…!

    And in that happy moment I felt a silence a voice missing of the person who will forever stay within our hearts,

    Everyone’s hearts who was within that room—

    Hope his life ahead is an easier one…!

    After saying that in my mind I got ready to have dinner with them…!

    (Khair…)

    Coming back to the prompt…!

    Best compliment I’ve received

    Do men ever receive compliments…?

    Or,

    I have been someone who is so cut off from the world that I don’t remember when it comes to being complimented or remembering a compliment…!

    I do remember being told that—

    I don’t have the same thinking as the kids of this generation;

    They’re abrupt and cut off people in the middle,

    And I came to our rescue by saying that,

    The new generation knows when to stop and by stopping I mean themselves and others too when they know the conversation will take a wrong turn…!

    Another one,

    I was told this by an older person when I was travelling by train to my extended family—

    I think in a way that’s better than most of the adults that they’ve met…!

    And I told them it’s my company and the type of people I surround myself with as a fully functioning adult and my thought process—

    But before I could complete the sentence they said—

    It gives them a clear picture of how my parents brought me up and taught me well…!

    The obsession of older generation to bring the parents of our younger generation into conversation is something that needs to be studied…

    But from that they can easily criticise both them and us in a single sweep and some people don’t tolerate that….

    “Thank you for bringing my life which I was so scared of infront of the whole world…”

    This compliment I received from a girl who I didn’t even meet IRL,

    She has a very tragic life story and when she told me everything that went on with her life;

    I didn’t tell her that it would be okay or to forget her past,

    But,

    What I did was asked her to tell me everything about her and what went on and her permission to bring her life infront of others…

    I wrote it to the best of my abilities and sent it to the world to view and read and comment and tell how grateful she was to survive a broken family and find her space within it all…!

    It’s been some time now that we haven’t talked and I hope she is well…!

    And I didn’t do it to her close to her in any way,

    Infact as she opened up to me I felt her taking the place of my little sister that I never had…!

    I’ll check up on her today as I remember this…!

    I’ve been told that—

    I write well and I must have published a few books by now—

    To which I say that I’m still learning and finding myself in that process and shaping myself in a person that I want to be like who does things on his own accord without being influenced by others…!

    If you are here reading this,

    You must have read these are the things as compliments but it feels like none of them were a compliment to me—

    They felt like subtle things that people notice…!

    None,

    Not even a single one of them felt to me like a compliment…

    Maybe because I have a thick skin or my definition of compliment differ from others…?!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍