In what ways do you communicate online?
Hey…
I hope all of you are doing well…!
Yes, a Lohri update is due and I plan on doing that here itself because a lot of it was extended late until 12 am and I usually go to sleep by 11 or 11:30 pm at night…!
It was a usual work day and I returned home around 9 pm after making a pit stop to buy milk and some other daily household supplies…!
As soon as I reached home I assembled the bowl in which we put all of the stuff to offer it to the flame that we light earlier…
We bought all of these things above; if I were to explain rewdi it would be a crisp brittle candy made out of sugar or jaggery coated with sesame seeds…!
After putting it in the bowl we started to prepare the actual bonfire…!
We took a deep dish in which people mix cement, and turned it into a hack of a bonfire because the place around is surrounded by marble and a few years back it actually broke the bonfire as it got heated up real quick and cooled down as the temperature reached 5 degrees celsius the next morning…
The base of it is made using a cloth in which was wrapped camphor and we used matches to light it and thankfully the wood that we had were dry as a bone they lit up real quick…!
Our dog a beagle he was an active participant chewing on the peanuts and popcorn, he really liked rewdi and went to each one is us to have one…!
And when the wood caught on fire we took seven rounds around it while we put sesame seeds in it;
We took a handful of it and walked around the fire while putting it in the fire bit by bit until the rounds completed…!
And as soon as the seven rounds were over we took both handful of the rewdi, popcorn and peanuts and ate some of it and put the rest gradually in the fire…!
After that we sat around the fire by putting chairs and took the warmth all within us as we snacked on the tri-mix until we were joined by our neighbour and they sat with us and we talked for hours upon hours about life and happening…!
Coming back to the prompt
Which I almost forgot about…!
In what ways do I communicate online…?
Well, communication should happen that’s what matters to me we can talk over text, maybe direct message, WhatsApp, telegram, Instagram chat and so much more more…!
Any way that feels comfortable to the other person is suitable for me;
I used to chat on discord with people who formed a group after an app that I was regular on shut down…!
I prefer to discuss all of it on call because of my business nature, but there are some things that happen over text and I respect the other person’s boundaries too…!
(Because I’ve been on both the sides…!)
A meaningful conversation happens any-way when we begin to talk;
The only problem is that I cannot have a conversation to kill time or pass it just because I’m bored or they’re bored…!
Maybe that is something that I’d have to look for improving in myself,
But other than that,
I’m almost all times open to converse even on topics that spark fear…!
(**An edit before uploading aren’t we having a conversation here too…?)
Cheers 🥂
Love Waakiye 🤍
Waakiye 