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  • Dinner with Loved Ones: Healing Through Memories

    Dinner with Loved Ones: Healing Through Memories

    Daily writing prompt
    If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…

    There was a family tradition that used to take place earlier in our family,
    we used to get together,
    have drinks,
    cook our own food,
    some it was store bought,
    and it only required heating it a little bit..

    But,
    it was like once maybe twice a year kind of tradition which used to take place at our residence,
    but people used to come from faraway places,
    even from neighboring states,
    a day or two before…

    We used to have music,
    and used to hit steps after getting a bit tipsy,
    but,
    all in everyone enjoyed to their fullest,
    there would be people sitting in the corner eating and drinking,
    talking to each other,
    I would occasionally check on them and get them anything they needed,
    and they’d thank me for it,
    and the smile would stay on my face the entire night…

    Until,
    the latter half on ’23,
    after battling for an entire year,
    and losing at the end,
    the life was never the same,
    all the point of get-together became a sham,
    there was no happiness whatsoever,
    all the sense,
    essence of happiness or get-together was lost,
    as he left us…

    So,
    I’d invite my now deceased father,
    and revive the long-lost tradition of having the grand dinner once again,
    Or teach us how we could continue without the loss of someone so dear to our hearts,
    where all of us would get together,
    and enjoy to our fullest,
    once again,
    yet again…

    Cheers 🥂 (Happy weekend)

    Love Waakiye 🤍