Waakiye

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    Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car).

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…

    Well there are many purchases that I’ve made for other that might be more expensive than what I’ve purchased for self,

    I’m a person who sees the worth and time that thing will pay itself off before it’s of no use to me anymore or has to be scrapped…

    I’m very heavily invested in music and I have made purchases of expensive bass tubes and speaker sets when they were launched by the company…

    One would be a Samsung wireless sound bar with wireless subwoofer which when launched costed me around 22,000/- INR;

    Another one was a wired multimedia speaker launched in 2016 which was approximately 5,000/- at that time…

    Another purchase was a garmin watch costing 10,000/- I think it was a Vivosmart hr+ and it was when all of this wasn’t even a hype back in 2016…

    More recent purchases are a Samsung tab and an apple device from which I’m writing all of this…

    Nothing of a major purchase but all these little things that help me live my life better and get me the happiness I need,

    Bring me all the peace I need…

    And hey it’s a Sunday again make sure you are well rested and take it slow and also treat yourself if you haven’t…

    Happy Sunday

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Some laughters and life lessons worth hearing…

    Some laughters and life lessons worth hearing…

    What podcasts are you listening to?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…

    Well there aren’t many podcasts that I’m in these days but there are a few that bless my ears…

    One of the podcasts that I used to listen to was “Violating community guidelines” by Sarah Schauer and Brittany Broski;

    I know weird names but they complimented each other and the funny instances on their podcasts were so hilarious that I often laughed out while working making people think that I’ve gone crazy 🤪..

    48 episodes discussing the trends on the social media and what went on during the year 2022 and the end of it,

    Started in January of ‘22 ending in December of the same year, Ive found myself to go back to it year after year and boost my mood and give me laugh whenever life pins me down…

    These days I’m invested in a podcast called Alan watts daily wisdom and yes they’re sharing the timeless teachings of the philosopher Alan watts through ai in his voice to all the world to listen and view too…

    Started a month ago and 24 videos in gathering a whopping 108k followers as we speak (on yt) I’ve found it very helpful and informative by giving me insight to live this life better in ways that are often overlooked…

    Hope you will find these worth your while…

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A lesson that still stays with me.

    A lesson that still stays with me.

    What was your favorite subject in school?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…

    Those times were the ultimate, we could play and be ourselves(our real self) without bothering anyone and do things that we liked instead of what we are right now,

    how we act today to get what we want…

    Leaving it at that,

    My favourite subject was history, in specific ancient Indian history, which I found very interesting due to a dedicated teacher and her clear vision to impart everything that she learnt during her life to her students…

    The lessons were long according to some students (45 minutes) but I couldn’t get enough of them ever, also there were people who hated it from their very core;

    But there were others who loved it too and along with them we formed a group who were very much in love with it and wanted to learn as much as possible within a short period of time…

    We went on walks, explored locations and visited historic sites along with our teacher and learnt all the facts firsthand…

    Many years have passed and most of us still remember the lessons that she used to teach us and often we remember how much condensed information she fed to us within a span of two years…

    The best years of our lives…

    Hope you find a teacher/sir in life that sparks such interest and curiosity in you that has ripple effect all over your life…

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Life saving advices to cut screen time…

    Life saving advices to cut screen time…

    How do you manage screen time for yourself?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…

    I’m pretty sure most of the world is suffering with this disease of a very long screen time, hooked on Instagram reels, YouTube shorts and videos, clips on TikTok and many more…

    Time seem to pass by so quickly when we are hooked on them that it feels unreal;

    You started watching them at 10 at night and suddenly it’s 1:30 before you can see the time on the phone which was there all the time…

    There are a lot of things that I use to achieve my goal of reducing screen time a few of them are->

    • Having a separate phone for doing writing without any distractions so that I can focus when otherwise I would find a way to stop writing and doom-scroll Instagram..
    • Tracking screen time on both my phones just to keep in touch with how much I used a single app and how much I need to cut back…
    • Presetting a timer on each app which I use a lot for example I set a timer for an hour on Instagram which is a lot less from 4-5 hours which used to happen without knowing…
    • Trying to avoid using phones for the first few hours I usually wake up and pen my ideas or any dreams that I had, which makes all of it interesting as it boosts my writing skills and also imaginative skills which help me remember what happened in my dream world…
    • And at last, I keep my phones a bit away from me like for charging away from me when I have free time so I’d have to walk to it to get it as I’m on my bed, which cuts the interest in getting up and grabbing it a bit more…

    The last one is a big mind thing I know…😭😂

    And I hope these works for someone in need…

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A perspective from all ages

    A perspective from all ages

    Do you need time?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…

    The prompt today is such a great one that it has many layers to it the deeper you look at it…

    Asking this to a child the answer would be a big yes and they get to play more and be themselves more…

    Asking this to a teenager who is surrounded by studies and stresses they’d say yes too, A student would say they’d get more time to sleep and work on things they like,

    Whereas those under mountain of pressure would surely reject it…

    A working individual would say they’d love to have time but for themselves too,

    If it were a part of work they better be paid for it equally;

    A retired individual would say yes too, they’d get the maximum out of their lives if they’re going out to visits places that they haven’t, making it a once in a lifetime thing…

    But,

    A person who is struggling with a disease they’d definitely say no, not to have any second more of the pain and constant stresses that come with it…

    A person with a disability like depression and schizophrenia or anything that makes them agitated and lash out on themselves or those around them, they’d definitely say no to that too…

    A person who has lost all interest in life and living paycheque to paycheque surviving each and every month would definitely want time that goes to bringing themselves up unfortunately that’s not the sort of world we live in and often over exploitation is a thing and haunts us all…

    A person who is on their deathbed waiting for its sweet embrace they want more and more time away from it, but on the contrary a person fighting with it all the time wants none of it…

    For me I do need time,

    To complete all these pieces that I’m writing and working on but most of the time is eaten up by work and things that demand my attention at home, leaving me with next to none…

    And I know if I get more of it, a big chunk of it will go to my family and work instead of me or my growth; but that’s how life goes for me and I hope better for you…

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • On the brink of extinction, the human nature

    On the brink of extinction, the human nature

    What will your life be like in three years?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…

    With times uncertain as they are right now some days I really think is there any chance of survival for us as humans in the next couple of years…

    With Ai at the brink of an explosion which gives it power to compute much beyond humans (its super intelligent form),

    Which would mean a lot of our our jobs will be taken over and we will have to find other means and sources to make do what we are doing or love…

    The texts that you and I read and write; for them a lot of Ai tools has come to refine them or make them better which means that in coming years too a lot of content that you will read will either be a part of Ai or wholly made by Ai;

    What will happen once everything that is made has no connection to humans whatsoever…?

    A fearful scenario to think about but it’s not that far into the future maybe within the five year mark…?

    Fear inducing thought…!

    Cheers (To all our survival) 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A holiday tailored for yourself…

    A holiday tailored for yourself…

    Invent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate.

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…

    I’d like to point out this days prompt, there are other holidays too, there were people who were pioneers who shaped our city our country this entire world too,

    But even on their birthday or the day they passed away we continue to live our lives without giving any single thought as to who they were and what they achieved in their life which continues to affect us till this day…

    How one celebrates is entirely upto them if one feels that they can live their life fully by shutting themselves in,

    Or by taking a few more hours of sleep,

    Even an extra long bath,

    There are so many little things that affect our lives in the long run that we forget to live them…

    It might be spending time with a loved one or visiting family that lives far just for a single day…

    A holiday that would be spend according to your own needs would be a holiday in actuality, no matter what the mind desires and it’s able to achieve/do that…

    That’d be the holiday where you can follow your own routine that you make for yourself and nothing matters to anyone but you…

    A dream holiday where everyone does what they want at their own pace

    “A holiday catered to your own needs”

    (A new week is upon us and I hope it’s a smooth sail ahead…)

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

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    What are your favorite websites?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…

    Well this question is a curveball, my favourite websites, the answer to this question has changed so much in such a short time that even I cannot fathom the change when I look back at it…

    Earlier when there weren’t any streaming services and we had to watch movies/videos, only thing available was a shabby copy of it online, sometimes a torrent file other times a website whose name isn’t coming to mind right now but those were the good old days;

    Nowadays they’re replaced by Netflix prime Hulu and whatnot, leeching money away from us slowly and steadily…

    These days the media that we consume is replaced by shorts i.e. YouTube and Instagram (YT shorts and reels) being one of the most easily consumed short length media which effectively eats up all the time until you remember to look away from the screen and it’s 2 am in the morning and you have work at 9:30 😭…

    Even I watch some anime there’s a website called Animekai it’s a bit tricky to operate a little slow but when you get a hang of it it feels like the world has brought it to you firsthand…

    For writing this is the app that I prefer WordPress where I can freely write what I feel to my content and call them truly my own,

    I’ve had my series of problems, content deleted without notification, a few apps shutdown so I had to scramble to get all of my stuff copied because they wouldn’t give me an official copy when needed, but still there’s no hatred in mind for no one…

    And this place is what I call my own where I can truly be who and what I like to be…

    For music I use

    YTmusic(YouTube music for short),

    A single subscription for my family allows me to use it and I use it to my full content because I love to listen to music no matter the borders that we are bound in by the people…

    With that being said this post comes to an end,

    I hope your Sunday goes well and the coming week is a bit soft on you…

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Failed attempts at remembering my childhood…

    Failed attempts at remembering my childhood…

    Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live?

    Hi…

    I hope all of you are doing well…

    (I hope Halloween went for all those who celebrated..)

    I’d love to live a specific age in my life once again, well tbh I’m not that old yet but there’s an age which I’d like to return once and live my life to the fullest…

    It would be my childhood i.e. the age when I was between 6 years to 12 years, because I see people remember their childhood,

    but I really have no clue as to what my childhood was or what were my quirks or things that I used to do…

    I’ve seen people remember their childhood with photos and memories, but it’s all a hazy flashbacks for me, every once in a while someone will ask how my childhood was and I’d remember bits and pieces of it nothing more ;(

    I know it might feel sad to hear, but when you actively fight for survival after being the sole earner, things tend to fall apart real soon…

    Every once in a while someone in my family will say do you remember that (A core memory from my childhood)..?

    I’d shake my head and agree with them even if they lie through their teeth, because I have little to no recollection of what happened back then…

    It’s sad and disappointing but that’s how it is for me, so I’d like to live my childhood once again…

    Cheers (To some dreams that might come true in the near future) 🥂

    Love Waakiye🤍

  • The dreaded partition of 1947

    The dreaded partition of 1947

    What historical event fascinates you the most?

    Hi…

    I hope all of you are doing well…

    There’s so much fascinating things that happened in our past that piques my interest, but if I were to point out a single one of them it would definitely be partition of my country INDIA…

    Aftermath of that are still faced to this day, I’ve seen people without purpose and reason just existing on this side and on the other side too, sometimes all one does is question themselves are they born on the right side…?

    Being from a family whose ancestors travelled from what is now Pakistan and settled here in India a sense of love and friendship still exists somewhere in this heart of ours, even though a lot of bloodshed happened in retaliation of which we also picked arms and caused harm of equal or more intensity…

    Imagine leaving your friends, your ancestral home, your neighbours, your world behind and travelling beyond the line that was etched onto a map and now enforced by setting up boundaries and on it army personnel letting you pass only after checking…

    It was chaos, there was so much loss and the place that my ancestors settled was covered in grass that was as high as knees length which contained mutilated body parts of the people who resided here before us who became victim of the violence that took place which uprooted them from the very place that they settled in to raise their young ones…

    It was such a horrific incident that the survivors still tell us the tales of the horrors they saw from their very two eyes and all of it plays in their mind like it happened last night…

    A truly horrible happening that shaped our very core, fascinating all those who decide to step into this thought of process and try to feel how they must have endured it all…

    Cheers(to those who live to tell this tale to us)

    Love Waakiye 🤍