If you could have something named after you, what would it be?
Hey…
I hope all of you are doing well…!
It was a slow day yesterday at work,
A job that took the whole day but by the end of the day it was ready;
Which I will have to give to harderning today on my day off…!
It’s 8:18 and my day is packed to the brim…!
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I have to go on shop for necessities like fruits and veggies,
Biscuits and other munchies,
Ghee and some seed oil for home…!
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Other than that I have to go and make some edits to the cards and get them printed in a day or two;
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Try and get a look at what we are going to give my sister in gold;
Maybe a necklace or two;
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And after that;
Plan my entire evening getting information about catering, tents and internal decor for haldi, mehandi and ladies sangeet ceremony…!
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Packed to the brim,
Am I not…?
Coming back to the prompt…
Something named after me…!
I’d love it if a concept or a phenomenon would be called Waakiye;
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Something that stays in theory and often crosses into the practical world;
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I’d love if it meant to be in a mental state of feeling that signifies being in a comfortable position,
Something like open to all the wellness and filtering out all the negativity…
I’d never want it to be a building or a road or a venue—
Because I’ve seen the type of hatred people have towards the way things are named and people move to change it ever so often…!
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So,
Having a venue named after me and later changed just because a politician thinks that my name rings of a religious belief that are different from theirs;
It would be a shame to my name and my legacy if something was named once by the masses and then changed because they don’t feel I resonate with them…!
But if the name stays as a concept or a feeling;
It’s destined to stay even if I’m not…
Cheers 🥂
Love Waakiye 🤍
I hope you do remember,
The same young dog that was carrying the pigeons that we recently rescued was chasing this baby squirrel and we rescued it from under a car that it sat patiently waiting for us…!
And after keeping it for a few days,
As it escaped from the box a few times and eating a healthy amount of seeds and drinking enough water it was ready for the free world…!
So my sister released it in the evening and it went up the tree,
Never to be found again today…!
We named him
Gillu or गिल्लू
The first few words of the hindi word
गिलहरी which directly translates to squirrel
🐿️
Waakiye 