Waakiye

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  • The problems with the budgeting system and a need to be saved…!

    The problems with the budgeting system and a need to be saved…!

    Write about your approach to budgeting.

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well..!

    The same routine followed today waking up at 2:30 and going back to sleep around 4:30;

    But today something different happened, I didn’t write much but I was able to relive the previous day, the entirety of it within a span of 20 minutes, as I tracked my moments, all of the places that I went yesterday—

    All the people who I met and all the payments that I made—

    Everything in its entirety I was able to remember like a movie played right in-front of my eyes…!

    This is something new and something I haven’t done before in a long time…!

    But after doing that,

    I wrote something that even I feel worried about…!

    I titled it “Save me…”

    You’ll find it at the end;

    Coming back to the prompt

    My approach towards budgeting

    I do believe in budgets but at the same time I find them very much constricting and something that I often fight with towards the end of my month…!

    Well a chunk of my pay goes into household expenses and the meagre left with me almost covers my monthly expenses…!

    I’m not happy with the place I’m in right now, but not having a father figure in my life brings all of the responsibilities on my shoulders;

    So I have to be available to those who may are in need like my immediate family, and when I pull back(I often do…)

    It’s said that it’s not like what your father would have done—

    And when that words ring in my ears, it feels like those people were in a habit of mooching off my father and there’s a place where I draw the line…

    I’ve told the remaining members in my family that anything related to money(like giving it to someone else…) shouldn’t happen no matter the circumstances…!

    Because we have been the leverage people take and then forget that we helped them in any way…!

    A brief walk through my family’s broken history…!

    (Khair…)

    A budget happens, money moves into savings, the remaining money moves like water to cover expenses and some times some money is grabbed from my savings…!

    The basic crux of my life these days—

    Until some sort of stability comes in which don’t know when, but a hope still exists within this little mind of mine…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

    No I didn’t forget what I wrote this morning…

    And here it goes—

    Save me

    Save me,

    Save me from this torment that exists around me,

    Save me from the will of this world that surrounds me,

    Save me…!

    Save me from the person that lives within,

    Save me from the voice that speaks on its own,

    Save me from the voice that tells me to commit these atrocious acts;

    Save me from the vengeance that roams in my mind,

    Save me from the realisation of those acts I commit under the guidance of the voice,

    Save me from the temptations that my eyes come across each time I look at a screen or a person living and breathing,

    Save me from the person I become when I see someone helpless and can’t stop until I take advantage of their helplessness;

    Save me from the acts they did under the pressure to be free from the things that bound them,

    Save me from seeing them once again,

    Save me from doing something irreversible to them,

    Save me from taking their lives after doing what I did to them,

    Save me from the fact that I woke up comfortably the next day,

    Save me from the fact that I don’t remember who came to me to take their lifeless bodies away each night;

    Save me from reliving the next day again,

    Save me from myself—

    Yet again;

    Save me….

    ~fin~

  • A grocery haul for a typical family…

    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 🤍