Tag: dailyprompt

  • Ringing pain in my head and a chance at winning the lottery…!

    Ringing pain in my head and a chance at winning the lottery…!

    What would you do if you won the lottery?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A cool Wednesday morning it is after we were blessed with on and off showers which also boosted the winds making it a hard to survive climate outside…!

    I had a plan to go somewhere but I couldn’t because of the rain and the type of work I was trapped in;

    As soon as the rain stopped a little bit I took my two wheeler and ran towards my home;

    Thankfully I was able to reach home just before light showers started even after the usual 20 minute drive took me 40 because I had to grab supplies for home…!

    Last night was crazy as I had this ringing pain, because I slept late the night before around 3 finishing a movie and even today I feel a little light headed…!

    Oh the days of binge watching things are over now,

    A sad realisation all of it came with…;

    But,

    All I need to do is observe myself;

    It’s the second day and according to my calculations all of the symptoms like pain in my head and feeling lethargy should go by the third day, without taking any heavy dose of caffeine to jolt me awake…!

    All of the above is wrapped in a thin sheet of hope and a promise not to binge watch ever again after midnight…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    Winning the lottery…!

    It is a dream come true right, even if it’s someone like me who has never ever played a single lottery before;

    Not knowing how the things work, but a fact is known that the chance of winning a slim;

    Next to none if seen from a perspective;

    But, on the offset I bought a single ticket and won a sum; I would for sure save it towards a better future..!

    The prompt never tells you if you’re winning big or small, does it…?

    And when all of us think of winning the lottery we all think about winning big, a sum that’s a few crores, if not at least a few ten lakhs would suffice…!

    But winning these expects you to pay a whole lot of the money earned this way in the form of tax (just checked the stats and it’s 30%)

    On the offset you win some,

    The government wins 30% automatically from you;

    No matter if you have been playing it all the time or took a first ticket and won 1 crore for example…!

    The government automatically becomes the owner of 30 lakhs from the money that you earned…!

    It would be selfish to keep all of the remaining money to yourself unless you thank the factors that forced you to buy the ticket and earn it…!

    Maybe donate a portion of the money and keep the rest or make continuous donations of little amount each month which makes you look like a sane person;

    Instead of spending it all on riches that you won’t be able to afford the upkeep of later,

    Like expensive cars and houses which require recurring maintainance but none of it won’t be possible if you have already depleted all of the source…!

    So,

    Spend cautiously;

    It’s the same as the money earned through illegal activities, a lot is earned and a lot is spent and at the end nothing is left…!

    Beware ☢️

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Answering a question about life and my relationship with fictional books…!

    Answering a question about life and my relationship with fictional books…!

    What books do you want to read?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A good Tuesday morning and I slept so good;

    Because last night as I made a post here which basically discussed what counts as a fulfilling marriage to you…!

    Which became a type of prompt for those people who are in my WhatsApp and they answered in one word;

    Which became a challenge for me until the afternoon of Monday until I reached home and killed the whole topic within a span of few hours, because I already had the base words and the concept I wanted to prove ready…!

    The said prompt in question

    My answer to the question…!

    And I slept late yes,

    Around 3:30 am because as soon as I was done with it, I dozed off for an hour and I was like “this will come haunt me later…”

    So I woke up at 8:30 in the morning,

    And I have to survive this whole day on 5 hours of sleep…! 🫩🫩

    Yup,

    A problem brought on me by myself;

    (Khair…)

    Coming back to the prompt

    What books do I want to read…!

    There are many books that I have with me which just sit in my bookshelf and there isn’t something that I want to read specifically…!

    But there is something that bugs me,

    I love a good book;

    like an inch thick book works for me; (in height)

    Anything that is more than that seems like a challenge to even look at…

    Because when you’re more of a writer who loves to work around things and provide people with concepts and information in clear and concise manner;

    These thick books makes no sense…!

    I mean I don’t want to ruin fiction for anyone, but most of my work tends to revolve around reality and the things that happen naturally in life and when things stray far away from it,

    It feels like I cannot relate to it anymore…!

    That’s my reason,

    I want to spark a change in me to be able to read fiction, because I like to watch movies and plays which are based on sometimes real sometimes fictional characters;

    Which doesn’t necessarily make me hate it or avoid it at all costs…!

    Does it make any sense to you…!?

    I really hope it does;

    Happy Tuesday…

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Republic Day parade and family traditions…!

    Republic Day parade and family traditions…!

    Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.

    Hey…!

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Well it’s a Republic Day and I hope it’s a day off for you..

    At least the people who are living here in India and you can peacefully wake up and not be bothered to worry about any additional work that is pushed onto you…!

    And I just found out the Republic Day parades that I have been watching on YouTube which were supposedly going in live, on various news channels were previous years and it was supposed to start at 9:30 which I’m watching right now…!

    Yes it’s playing right now…!

    With a blessing that helps me cope with things in my life…!

    My mithu…!
    The prime minister of our nation; Mr. Narendra Modi

    Coming back to the prompt

    Our family traditions…!

    We enjoy parade each year sitting within the comfort of our homes;

    Well we plan on visiting the next year in person to watch the parade, let’s make that happen coming year again…!

    One of the traditions that we have which is akin to Halloween where generally people outside India carve a pumpkin;

    But we have a pot of clay that we got made in which we usually keep a Diya and roam around our house in a way to ward off evil forces and spirits…!

    It is called Gad-bade and I usually celebrated in Punjab and northern regions of India…!

    Its history is said to be that the elders of the village used to put coins in the pot as a token of gift and gratitude towards the coming generations and a way to keep on the traditions alive…!

    Another one would be a get together that we do once every winter in our family where we call our extended families and we gather at someone’s place and have a full blown party,

    As a token of the fact that all of us are in good health and celebrate success of the year that has passed and welcome the new one with open arms…!

    That would conclude today’s prompt and it made me think…!

    We need to have more traditions…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Leisure activities and grateful for my younger self…!

    Leisure activities and grateful for my younger self…!

    What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Guess what I am up today at 6:23 am;

    My mental clock is going back ever so slightly and I can’t seem to grasp why; why is that my hours of sleep is reducing but I can’t feel it…!

    (Maybe a crash is coming…!)

    Maybe this is because I’ve introduced myself to a sleeping earlier…? Because I usually went to sleep around midnight but I remember going to sleep around 11:30 last night;

    An half hour before my routine…

    A crazy idea just came if I go to sleep at 10:30 maybe I can wake up at 5 am in the morning…

    (Khair…)

    It’s a Sunday and I hope all of you wake up well rested and happy…!

    But those who work in the corporate world will wake up thinking it’s the last day of the freedom…;

    But wait; it’s a good thing for people working in India as tomorrow is a holiday for all of you because it’s 26th of January; which is celebrated as Republic Day of India 🇮🇳

    I hope some of you went out to enjoy the long weekend outside Delhi because most of the workforce sits at home and very few things are open on the Republic Day…!

    Well most of the old Delhi is cordoned off by Delhi police and the area is under military watch as the entire area becomes a sensitive zone which is prone to attacks and illegal activities; so they begin shutting down the shops on the main roads a day of two before the actual day that is celebrated which is 26th of January; so the shops are closed from 24th to 26th afternoon maybe…!

    I’ll get you the whole detail tomorrow itself…!

    Coming back to the prompt…!

    What do I enjoy doing most in my leisure time…?

    First of all “What is leisure time…?”

    Because today I woke up earlier by cutting my sleep by an hour and a half to make some time for things that I have been postponing for the past week…!

    I don’t know why I was pushing it further; Because it should have been done already— let me not fill your mind up by unnecessary chatter of mine…!

    This is the scene from my view right now; Overcast and some sunlight coming into my view..! And yes those are my glasses and under that is a toffee called Melody(which I got as the shopkeeper didn’t have loose change…)

    I love to catch up on sleep if I find some leisure time😭😂 (clearly not a joke…)

    I love to listen to music and pen down my thoughts, so I do that whenever I get some free time on my hands…!

    Other than that I am introducing myself to movies once again because my attention span has deteriorated so much that I can’t seem to sit still without checking out other devices;

    After a few minutes;

    On the first screen I’m watching a movie;

    On the other one I’m scrolling a reel

    and on other one I’m searching the details about the movie…!

    Yup that’s how it is for me….!

    I’ve tried to play some games too (online ones) but that makes my head spin after looking at the screen for like 10 minutes…!

    And I planned on buying a ps5 for myself which I know will collect dust because I won’t have enough time to play;

    Earlier it was all about affording one and being able to afford the games that are upwards of INR 5k, a single copy…

    To many that might seem a wastage of money but to a child who loves to play games it’s something that brings them immense joy and happiness…!

    And when it became possible to afford games life happened;

    Now I look back and thank my Timid self for keeping in control and not buying a console…!

    That’s all for today;

    You can go and follow your routine or do let me know what do you do during your leisure time in the comments down below… 👇

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Societal problems and a conversation on Indian flatbreads…

    Societal problems and a conversation on Indian flatbreads…

    Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A Saturday it is and my eyes opened at 7:26 yet again I don’t know what is going on but my eyes seem to open again earlier than my schedule now twice in a row;

    But it’s good for me as I now have more time to do what I want and need to get things done sooner than before…!

    This Saturday morning came to me with some surprises and some questions;

    A friend of my sister, practicing law, was teased by a senior lawyer under whom she’s working, she told all of this to my sister and she hasn’t picked up any call from her past 2 days;

    I have told(my sister) to pay her a visit and if she’s not comfortable she can visit our home and talk all about it to her, and discuss the matter in depth to her…!

    If men could keep it in our pants, this world would be a much better place…!

    Another one is a problem regarding my nephew;

    He is showing the behavior of someone who is acting really scared all the time and calls their parents on little things at school…!

    His behavior has drastically changed and has caused all of us move in panic and look for solutions all along…!

    We advised to let the school’s counsellor take a look and guide them to take a proper course of action;

    And she told us to look for a therapist(we don’t call it a psychologist because that makes us look coo-coo, an inherent trait that some of us Indians carry…)

    The therapist came to a conclusion that he saw something like a scary movie even after he was told not to and advised to go play with children in the other room;

    He himself sat there and it alternated something in him causing him to be paranoid about that later in a few days…!

    Right now he’s recovering as a few sessions take place and he will be coming to stay with us on Sunday if possible…!

    I’ll let you guys know how it goes…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    An attraction or a town close to home I haven’t visited…!

    There’s a place called MURTHAL , I’m pretty sure all of you have heard it before;

    And it’s ridiculously famous for its paranthas(flatbread with filing in it), served with white butter and creamy lassi…!

    People traveling between Delhi and chandigarh often make a pit stop there to have the said delicacy…!

    The only thing is paranthas are available everywhere, in Delhi which has a street called (परांठे वाली गली) paranthe wali gali…

    An entire street is dedicated to them as there are shops both on the left and right which sell paranthas with the same white butter, lassi and subzi(vegetable curry) too…!

    Is it worth the hype, I’ll let all of you know if I am fortunate enough to go there or pay a visit to the place myself in an update…!

    For the time being, we will have what we have at home and call it a day…😭😂

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye

  • Light showers and events that bring me happiness…

    Light showers and events that bring me happiness…

    List five things you do for fun.

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A cold morning it was and Delhi has finally been blessed by rain today…!

    I don’t know why but my eyes opened at 7:34 am this morning and as soon as I saw out of my window I saw the perfect weather for rain…!

    All of the sunlight blocked and it appeared grey, which now has turned into some sunlight peering through the skies…!

    A view from my window…!

    Due to which I had to skip my morning walks but I took a few circles around my terrace…!

    With that being said I have my work cut out for me as it’s a Friday and I have to deep clean my room, and remove the clutter…!

    Which will happen after I make this post public;

    Until then I can think, curled up in this cozy blanket and complete it with all my mind…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    Five things I do for fun

    Well,

    You’ll be surprised to know that not much fun goes on in my life, I usually keep things neutral not to happy not too sad, but my mother immediately finds if something wrong with me as soon as they take a look at my face…

    I don’t know how that’s possible but that’s what happen when someone births you and has taken care of you your entire life;

    They know you though and through…!

    Let’s not go astray from the topic…

    Let me tell you things I do for fun—

    • I like to watch plays which are rare like once every two or three weeks but it feels like I become a new person as I walk out of the theatre/auditorium…!
    • I like to go on walks and explore the possibilities of finding new avenues of life, even when I go outside I keep my eyes out in the distance so I don’t trip firstly and also to get an insight into the life’s of people who are ready to talk…
    • I like to hang out with my friends, whenever schedule permits we usually set a place or just hang out around each other’s house have something to drink like tea/coffee or something light; we don’t usually meet for food but a breakfast escape is due from a long time…!
    • I love to read, well not much these days but I do have books that I’ve bought and love to read them once I get time(I know I can’t get anything more out of these 24 hours…)
    • The last thing that I do, that I love is journaling; I do that each day and pen down thoughts and dreams that I have which makes me clear my mind of the negative thoughts, not necessarily in my phone but also in a diary that I carry with me everywhere…!

    These are the things that I do for fun, and I hope you also do some things that shift you from your monotonous routine into something that helps you to break your cycle…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A deep question and sincere apologies to our pets…

    A deep question and sincere apologies to our pets…

    If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…

    A not so cold Thursday morning it is, honest to G0d I slept in shorts and a single T and even then I was feeling hot in the blanket so you know what I did; I put one of my legs outside and the rest of my body was in the blanket…

    Haha 🤣

    The morning walk was brisk and good and I met the street dogs as usual and I will remember to carry some dog biscuits for them tomorrow morning…!

    Also;

    I wrote a question on my WhatsApp status and got good answers too,

    It was

    What counts as a fulfilling marriage to you…?

    And I got soo many responses;

    it was crazy to jus keep up with them…

    It would be great if I could get some answers so I can come up with a post late tonight about this topic as I’m working on it right now…!

    A fulfilling marriage indeed, is it supposed to be fulfilling according to you…?

    Coming back to the prompt

    Making your pet understand one thing…!

    It’s such a beautiful prompt that all of the pet owners have something that they want to let their pets(well in some cases their children) known…!

    They want to make them understand that they are loved,

    And basic things like you shouldn’t poop in the house like the couch or the carpet, outside would be good …!

    We go to work to earn money for treats and the shoes that we own aren’t toys because they cost an arm and a leg maybe the whole left side(considering the amount of shoes my dogs have chewed till this date…)

    For me,

    The most important thing would be a dual question…!

    The first would be,

    What was the dream in which you started to shake which happens once every blue moon…?

    I’d like to decipher and protect them and let the entire world know how can we help them and prevent it…!

    It was a dream and dreams are not real is what I’d like to make them understand, and they are safe within this warm house and in our embrace…!

    Another one would be something that is selfish on all our part(Most of our part…)

    We(each of us pet owners) would like to apologise to them, for pulling them away from their mothers…!

    This is a guilt that we all carry in our subconscious, I know;

    Well one of my dogs is a rescue because their mom passed to the world beyond this one and she left her child infront of our door and in the morning, and we found her breathing her last breath infront of us because she was poisoned by someone…!

    Cruel world…!

    So we took her in and embraced her as a part of our family, and she lives happily with us…!

    These two questions(one question and another statement) are something that I’d definitely ask/tell them…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Putting my share in at work and exploring the name Waakiye

    Putting my share in at work and exploring the name Waakiye

    Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc.

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A long day it was yesterday, I was able to complete the job that I had at my hand yesterday and start the next one a little bit…!

    Maybe I will end it today itself ( I hope so…)

    And this day was a good one, I went out for a walk and saw many a things like birds and street dogs, which I petted just before returning home and thoroughly washing my hands…!

    All in it seems like a good morning and I hope the rest of the day goes the same way…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    My first name it’s meaning, significance and etymology…

    Well it’s a tricky one because I intentionally plan to keep it hidden and people to know me by this name only;

    Which is

    Waakiye

    I can go deeper into the name that I chose for myself because that is something I wanted to be known by and it resonates with me more…

    And in an Indian household your actual name is used very less; all the time you are called by a short name or how we usually call people around us…

    For Indian users they know what I’m talking about, but for those viewing from outside,

    A pseudonym like(bhai, bhen, beta, oh hello) translations(brother, sister,daughter, son, hello!)

    Sometimes a short form of your name is used, heavily butchered is a sense that strays away from your actual name;

    That’s why you will see that some don’t have an attachment to their names…

    It might seem to you that waakiye name is incomplete but in a sense it displays duality in a single word…

    • Waak’ye(वाक्य) which means a sentence in my native language Hindi…
    • Waak’ya(वाक़या) which means A happening maybe an incident, an accident or an event that took place somewhere…

    Both of them being significant words in our native language because when we string these words together we form a sentence which gets our feelings and thoughts across each other,

    Just like I am penning all of this and it will reach you once I upload and you get to read all of it…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Quitting tracking these 24 hours and a few work tasks…!

    Quitting tracking these 24 hours and a few work tasks…!

    What’s your dream job?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It’s a calm Tuesday morning and I feel a bit better about today, because I already have in control what all I have to do at work today;

    It usually is predictable; for example I have to finish a specific task like there are 476 pcs that needs to be chamfered on a single side and I think it will take around two and a half hour maybe three but it shouldn’t take any more than that;

    And after that I’m getting onto a turning job that has been sitting on for so long that a layer of dust has formed on the raw material;

    Which I plan to finish by this day’s end too,

    After that I will go to some regular task like making some material that goes out on the regular…!

    Enough chatter about work,

    Well it was a nice intro to the type of work that I do, but it seem a lot more easy looking from an outside pov but when it comes to doing an actual industrial job; it really breaks your back and gives you so much more challenges that you have to keep on thinking to make it work…!

    Coming back to the prompt…

    My dream job…!

    Let me begin by saying that, there’s no chance and no amount of money that will get me to dream about a job…!

    Well those would be nightmares that can have me sitting in a confined space and make we work…!

    No other way 😂

    Let’s not steer away from the prompt—

    A real dream job would be to be free enough to work on things that I like,

    I mean having a cup of tea/coffee and sitting in mountains somewhere, where I would have a place called home and in such environment I am free enough to come up with much better posts and stories than what I do right now..!

    (Some of it is also dependent on seeing people and the type of things that happen around me sparking a change within me…)

    Because most of my time is eaten away by work 10+hours daily(good days)

    And the remaining is spend in driving to and fro, some additional work that pops up, hanging out at my usual tea shop, forming ideas and thoughts into what becomes a post;

    (Sometimes they just take up memory in my phone…!)

    But all of that happens for a reason and that’s what I say to myself and keep on working even if it seems tedious to someone who looks from outside…!

    Just like now,

    I’m working on this post and having a conversation with a friend and helping my sister open an account online…!

    Multitasking is the way to go when these 24 hours seem short, shorter than what they usually seemed to be earlier…!

    A dream job would be that I’m free from tracking these 24 hours and I’m in a space that I can work on things I like while also working with my hands occasionally;

    Which keeps me grounded and helps me earn a bit too while also helping those who are working for me…!

    A dream job that employs people and gives them enough that their life becomes easier would be the best…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Monday blues and the leaders that represent us

    Monday blues and the leaders that represent us

    What makes a good leader?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Another Monday is upon us all;

    And by pushing ourselves in a direction that guides us towards a future that’s better for us would be the best possibility…!

    But,

    Not all days are good ones, some days you just exist and some days you just want to disappear into thin air but those days demand more of you every time that happens…!

    Haven’t we all been there…?

    (Khair…)

    Those days are a part of the life and its phases;

    So we have to endure them too with all our might and just like we laugh and shed tears of happiness on our happy days, likewise we just turn silent and embrace those sad days too;

    We have to, there isn’t a choice, if there is, do let me know…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    What makes a Good leader…?

    Someone with a spine…!

    The entire prompt can be summed up in the line above…!

    Haha,

    If it was so easy we wouldn’t have these speeches, protests and many talks of propaganda and making people fight on the basis of religion(or their religious beliefs…)

    Someone who works for those who brought them into power, and the fear that the same can pull them down once should remain within their heart and mind…!

    A grounded approach and a good sense of self including reading the whole room as they walk in is a must;

    Because they represent us on a scale that exists beyond just the people who brought them into power;

    They now represent us on a scale that whole world can view and even their single loose comment brings shame onto us and sets an example of how tolerable we are with that we let them speak…!

    Accountability of their actions and how they plan to work for the people and bring some change into the working of the government that sparks change into the life of the people well not directly, but maybe in an indirect sense like supporting industrial sector and the agricultural sector which form the backbone of the country…

    Contrary to the types of leader we have in power these days, we would love to have the polar opposite of what we have in power these days…!

    A long thought to ponder about isn’t it…?

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍