Tag: education

Doing away with dual meaning and walking away from people…!

If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

Another already answered prompt forcing me to cut short my answer and get into one of my saved posts or getting into my notes app to find something worthy of your time…!

Well an answer for the prompt would be something like this…!

I wouldn’t necessarily ban a word because I’m not in a position to do that,

But,

what I’d like to happen is to do away with the dual meaning of words that happen after another generation picks it up…!

For example the word

Cooked,

Meant that the “food was ready” but these days it means something else entirely…!

These days in slang it means “to be in big trouble or exhausted”

This duality has ruined a lot of words like

Slay

Glaze

Bet

Tea

The list goes on and on…!

I would do away with this duality because it’s hard for me to search for the meaning behind the slangs all the time…!

One of my posts underneath ⏬

You only see what you want!

Don’t you…?

No…

Sometimes,

They only show what they want to be seen as,
and they’re so good at it,
you come to know this later…!

They aren’t even a speck of what they act,
like their behaviour and their actions can be the polar opposite of what they are with someone else…

Glad I came and distanced myself,
or rather,
I’m glad things came up and brought distance between us…

Now that I sit back and see,
I cannot agree more with those pointing fingers at you because of who you are,
rather,
what sort of a person you are…

I’m glad and breathe in peace,
That,
There won’t be any fingers pointed at me,
for the fact that I am still in contact with you…!

(P.s.
I might have been in contact with you once,
but,
all of our connections are long gone,

And I have not a single speck of regret for that…!)

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

25/02/2026
A dream that didn’t come true…!

What colleges have you attended?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

Whew, the weekend is upon us finally and I hope all of you are now ready to finally let loose because what a week it was,

I remember celebrating new year then going back to work in the morning 😭😔;

But not today;

All of the work can be done on Monday and all the enjoyment happens today and some tomorrow(I.e. a Sunday)

Coming back to the prompt,

What colleges have I attended;

I’m letting you know this once,

I actually missed all of the college life because of some financial issues that we coincidentally got when I was supposed to be a part of the college and pursue my dreams;

It was back in 2017 and I was supposed to take admission in the college of my choice;

But it was outright refused by my father as he laid the facts in-front of me, it was very shocking and devastatingly cruel thing that happened to me, because entirety of my dream came to a collapse;

So I had to pursue another course from an open university,(Du SOL)

All of the material was available to pick from their office and I spent my whole three years going back and forth once to the place and the rest of the time I spent my time preparing from home;

Later I was pushed into joining the family business which wasn’t a part of my curriculum at all and that led to technically destroying whatever I learnt from the place because I started the work from the grime and learnt as I went upwards;

Well that sad story is supposed to be told another day;

I wish all of you readers a very happy new year and I hope your dreams come true this year;

Try to reflect on life sometimes, see how your child or your partner or even a stranger would react once they come to know your actions and story from someone else…!

Would they be happy or sad or outright refuse to play your part;

This becomes a very powerful reminder to amend or change your ways…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

03/01/2026
A clean slate remembering nothing…!

What makes you feel nostalgic?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

Today is the New Year’s Eve the final day of the year 2025;

I wish to bring to you love from my side if you’re reading this and you’ve been with me for long enough…!

The things and plans only aim on going upwards from here and better in ways that I can’t describe to you yet…!

There has been problems with schedules and managing time from this already busy 24 hours within this day; but I do plan to continue this because this makes me happy and keeps me connected to myself by letting me know who I am and why I do what I do…!

Coming back to the prompt…!

The word nostalgia means to me about the time that you lived in the past that had pleasure and also a mix of sadness because that is long gone which won’t come back again ever…!

Tbh the world has forced itself so much upon this mind that I barely even remember my childhood;

This might be sad to hear but yes this is how it is, I only know flashbacks of my childhood and even those memories are fleeting away from me;

When I’m within those whom I call my own and they remember their childhood an the moments we spent in school together I try to make believe from their conversations;

It doesn’t necessarily break my heart but it shatters something that I cannot remember something that we did together and we can’t relate to it anymore so we just talk about things around us…!

Long story short^

The memories that are fleeting away,

The memories that are fading which I partially remember they make me feel nostalgic,

I’m not the same person I was back then and each and every day I forget them a little bit more,

It seems the day isn’t far that I have a clean slate without any memories and that is what truly fears me…!

Well,

That’s a topic for another day and another version of me to worry about;

For all of you I hope you spend New Year’s Eve and the morning of the new year in your loved one’ arms while I pull a shift that I have planned to put my family in a better financial state;

A promise that gets priority over everything…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

31/12/2025
Relationships that built our foundations

What relationships have a positive impact on you?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…

The new year is almost upon us now,

It’s 30th of December today;

And just two days are left…

Let’s try and be a better version of ourselves in the coming year and make ourselves happy by focusing on ourselves rather than the world outside…!

Coming back to the prompt of the day;

Well this life is full of relationships that make and break us, but there are many which made me who I am today…

First the business relationship that I had with my father,

where he taught me all about the importance of building trust with the clients and also how we can land clients who aren’t satisfied with anything else otherwise;

He made me realise that you need to hear the problem a client is facing and draw conclusions with them to reach a point where both they and us are satisfied…

My relationship with my mother, who brought me into this world and cherished me from the bottom of her heart;

she taught me how to be soft spoken and to always listen before speaking anything or saying even a single word from your mouth; this gives the person a sense of satisfaction and in a sense relief that they are/were heard and even their words mean the world to someone…!

My relationship with my friends is that of a curious person;

we discuss topics that are crucial and gruesome at the same time, on discussing those we come to a point where we differ,

Then we understand the need of communication between us because it deepens our friendship when we constantly touch the boundaries which we made for ourselves and expand it each time…!

My relationship that I used to have with a certain someone who I used to call the love of my life was that of best friends,

we used to talk on call discuss our routine later when home we used to video call each other because of the distance between us; something that came between us eventually and flung us apart from each other, forcing us to to walk on paths different from each other…!

Well, if you ask me these relationships that exist around us make and break us;

If on opening your eyes you think about survival and making it back to your home or the loved ones, your mind becomes coded in that way and everything becomes a survival story…!

The type of worlds we live in…!

With that being said the new year came at the worst time,

in the middle of the week this year…!

Well even if it did, let’s make it the best of us and a promise to self to be a better version of ourselves in the coming year…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

30/12/2025
My ride or die

What is your all time favorite automobile?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

The Christmas is over and within a few days the new year will be upon us;

On top of that it’s a Friday and the last working day of the week and I hope you have some days off during the first few days of new year like 31st or 1st of January 2026;

But that being said; I hope that you get to spend time with family and loved ones more this year while also being able to earn good…!

Well, coming to the prompt,

My favourite automobile is my two wheeler,

A trusted partner of mine whom I spent a whole lot of money replacing its engine once and carburator twice…

It was a whole lot of expense until I found the best person to treat her and get it serviced alright…

My plus one who takes me everywhere and in turn I take care of her too;

My first ride which has been through all of my ups and downs, and also stays with me when I am the happiest…

My ride or die(well I have found myself in some situations too where it was either me or the person infront of me and I saved their lives instead of mine…)

But that’s just basic civic sense I wouldn’t willingly hurt two-three people where I could just get scraped and hurt myself a little bit instead…

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

26/12/2025
A deep sleep and an eye catching play…

What was the last thing you did for play or fun?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…

The weekend is upon us and I hope 🤞 you’re free from all the stresses until Sunday afternoon because that’s when reality hits for the most of us…😔😭

The last thing I did for fun was wake up full rested a few years back when I was travelling with my family, I was actually so tired because during the whole trip I was the only one who was awake idk why am I like this but everyone was asleep but as soon as I reached a place known to me I hit the bed around 8pm at night and woke up at 10 am the next day…😳

It was 14 hours of me just sleeping that’s it, there was nothing that woke me up and no one that disturbed me and after I woke up I remember drinking a pitcher full of water;

A whole 2 liter in a single sitting, it felt like I was in the desert for the past hours and my throat was dry and I was hungry so I just drank my fill and woke up well rested…

ONLY THAT DAY AND NEVER AGAIN…

It was a day and a half of travel and I was awake through the night too…

I remember my family telling me that my eyes were bloodshot like there was literal blood running in them, I had indents of my wired earphone on my face and my phone was at 2 percent…

I wish to get that sleep once again…

Well that was a funny back story isn’t it…?

BUT FOR FUN;

I usually watch plays,

The last one was Khichik,

Where I saw a couple and their parting after finding out that they were involved with other after falling in love with each other and them meeting yet again and completing their final years with each other until the main characters passed away one after another…

A beautiful play written by Shiv Subramanyam called snapshots from an album from the book Irani cafe and other plays..

It was the first time I saw Girija Oak Godbole and Ghanshyam lalsa on screen and it was one of the best performances I’ve witnessed;

The director Divya Jagdale did a great job by making the cast work in such a fluid manner that it was breathtaking;

And a proof that I did, I’m attaching the photo of the performance I witnessed…

(Haha to prove my point…)

Happy weekend to those who are celebrating and remember to drink plenty of water of you plan to binge drink or anything and remember buying recovery shots if you step out fill your groceries…

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

In the picture Our national crush Girija Oak Godbole on the right and Ghanshyam Lalsa on the left(a few minutes before the play ends)

A keepsake I bought after the play ended the actual book that the play was taken from…!

20/12/2025
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 🤍

19/12/2025
Men who shaped my life

Describe a man who has positively impacted your life.

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…

There are a few men in my life who have guided me in a positive direction and given me a way to live this life in a much better way…

The first one would be my late father, who was one of the pillars in my life he shaped my existence (literally) and taught me how to be a better person by just being present in my life and acting like a good father figure to look up to, even though we had limited time with each other,

There are some decisions of his that I question myself but those were taken keeping in mind my future and the future of our family-led business…

But I’m really grateful that whatever time we had together was spent in happiness and neutrality…

The second one would be my father’s brother, my uncle; he is the one who taught me all the business that our family has to date, and he taught me the basics and the complex things of the business that we now run together;
He imparted me the sense of respect and how to please a client and negotiate what feels best for us (margin-wise) without having to cut deep into the pockets of any of our potential client a time of five years under his guidance gave me a different perspective at life also the shoes he had to fill when he was a child forced into this business too…

The last one would be my friends, without them I’m just a wandering soul on this planet, they keep me grounded and also help me achieve what I am capable of there are so many instances that have shaped me that happened just between my friends which gave me a new perspective on life itself;

They are with me when there was no one, and they shall be with me until the end of me…

These were the few men who positively impacted my life…

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

18/12/2025
A dream postponed to 2027..

Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…

Have you ever thought about not being alive to see yourself the next year…?

I know it’s a dangerous situation but a lot was going wrong then a bad relationship, not having a sense of direction, spending most of my time tirelessly working and not enjoying it at all, I was stuck in a constant loop of working and working my butt off until I was tired enough to gobble food and drop dead asleep…

A bad time it was,

I also prepared for myself a dream which came to a halt somewhere in the middle of this year because my sister found the right match for herself and we have planned to get her married next year…

So all of my dreams and aspirations that I had for this year, they’ve taken a back seat and other ones have taken their place as priority,

Which will take more time a good half of the year 2026 I assume,

But after that, I’m free to dream and perform according to my aspirations,

(This might be a far-fetched idea because there are a lot of expenses that come after the wedding too, we have to go there they will come here, and many others will stay here for a few days and some will plan to go there too,

A few more rituals and plans will follow…)

Maybe I will be free next year the same time to plan my year 2027…

Haha 😂

Well life it is and in it we shall flow,right…?

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

17/12/2025
In your ethics or not..?

What skills or lessons have you learned recently?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…

Life is said to be lessons strung together if you ask me to be honest, each day I learn something new, a new perspective to look at things and observing people gives me insight into the behaviour which in turn helps me to write better…

A lesson that I’ve learnt recently would be,

“If it’s not in your ethics you can’t change it until something of the same degree is endured by you sparking the said change…”

The ethics that you once fixed for yourself long before you even knew what they were, shaped your entire life that you live ahead…

For example, if you think that you can change a functioning adult just by talking to him about their drinking habit or someone’s addiction to smoking which they have done for many years now;

Something like that won’t be easily shaken just by talking about it or just letting them be, it often develops into something serious before we can even consider it as an addiction ourselves;

Maybe it’s just drinking now later it would be hard drugs and later to fuel the craving of it selling all of the things that one sees around them and once the possessions are sold the person becomes even more dependent on it making them do bad things and ill deeds to fuel it yet again…

Hence it has to be in your ethics to know when to stop and what not to do even a single time, guided by ethics they will push you to not do certain things that help you in the long run…

Of course, an addict won’t know anything about ethics but once in it everything seems out of reach, but the proper ethics would push you not to continue a path that would take you down in such a way;

A seed of ethics is important to protect yourself from things that might diminish your life…

I hope this is a turning point in someone’s life, a tad bit of long read…

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye🤍

16/12/2025