Tag: family

  • Pseudo—camping and joining back work….!

    Have you ever been camping?

    1/05/2026@Waakiye

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It was a slow day at work yesterday and I had to join back someday and I told myself why not today…!

    So I went back to work and started where I left off and began working on the blanks that I prepared before I took the days off for my sister’s wedding…!

    I was able to hunk off quite a bit of material and I think I will be done with what was left around 1 in the afternoon—

    And I will begin on the second lot today itself and prepare some material for stock as we were running out of it before I went on my leave…!


    A packed day it is and it will be a long one too,

    but,

    I need to draw a line somewhere,

    I need to fulfill the promises I made to myself and set boundaries at work like working for a finite amount of time and we have started to reject emergency orders which bring us under a lot of pressure and even after the order is complete we are given the same amount that we were supposed to get if we were doing it on a normal time like a span of a day or two…!

    It’s a lot of work that we are turning down but that comes after being forced to work like literal machines and not being paid adequately for it…!


    And once that happens we can charge extra for the emergency work that requires same day action on something…!

    It’s not something I see purely from a business pov but;

    I see it from a view that it gives us a sense of accomplishment and we are adequately paid for it too because we are making time from our packed routine to accommodate your emergency…!


    Something that is hard to see if you’re not looking at it from an industrial pov where things go wrong and require maintenance at every single step…!


    Coming back to the prompt

    Camping and my views on it

    Let me be honest;

    I’ve never been on a camping trip per se—

    like,

    We didn’t plan in advance and bought gear and prepared ourselves and took training for setting up tent and any other thing…!

    But—

    I’ve been to enough hill stations and have enjoyed the pseudo-camps that they have set up there…!


    I remember a trip to a place called narkanda which is 60 something kilometres upwards of Shimla and where we booked our homestay…!

    And at that place they were setting up these tents next to the bonfire that they had made out of old metal drums and they were putting in wood that they brought from a shed that was attached to the property…!


    and after paying extra we got in those tents and took the feeling of what it feels like camping…!

    Well,

    pseudo—camping to be honest

    because all of the stuff was provided to us like food in plates and timber was added to the fire by the homestay staff;

    and all we did was sit put in that rent and even blankets were provided to us in that tent and we slept like logs…!


    Let me bring your attention to

    Pseudo—camping

    because that is what we did,

    we didn’t hunt(pretty sure that isn’t allowed here in India)

    we didn’t cut down trees to keep the fire running,

    and we didn’t set up tent as it was already there;

    But,

    we did feel like we did camping…!

    (or maybe in an essence…)


    To camping—

    A pseudo one if you may;

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • An Indian kid’s favourite festival and the aftermath of a wedding programme…!

    An Indian kid’s favourite festival and the aftermath of a wedding programme…!

    What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite?

    30/04/2026@Waakiye

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    I’m back here after a gap of a few days and successfully completing my sisters wedding programme…

    A few things still remain incomplete and a few payments still remain pending which will be completed in the coming week…!

    We have that sort of liberty with businesses we made purchase from because we buy stuff from them on the regular and we started our conversation with this fact that we are from the bride’s side and we will have expenses…!

    And,

    only after they agreed we picked up stuff from them;


    The time forward will be of a lot of hardwork and we will have to pinch ourselves and save each and every penny(well in our case rupee)

    Because in the coming days ahead there will be people who will be visiting us both from ours and grooms side and we will have to prepare ourselves accordingly;


    And,

    I’m happy for the fact that we were able to manage it on our own,

    well we took help of my cousins and a brother who is not blood related but took the place of someone who’s more than that and arranged it all for us…!


    Other than that,

    all of us will be operating in recovery mode because we moved so much here and there each day;

    All of my joints are making a clicking noise when I move and I can’t seem to do away with the back pain that has been surging from the day before the programme started;

    Maybe because I had to sleep on a foam mattress that we took from a business on rent…!

    All of this will generally fade away on its own,

    but,

    I’ll find a doctor or a physiotherapist if the pain persists longer than a few more days…!


    Coming back to the prompt

    My favourite holiday and why I like it…

    Being an Indian and Panjabi Brahmin on top of that;

    We don’t celebrate Easter or Christmas but we do get involved with the people following Christianity in their celebrations…!

    For me it would be

    Diwali 🪔

    A festival that all of the nation celebrates at the same time and welcomes goddess Lakshmi asking her for prosperity in our home;

    Also lighting diyas 🪔 in our homes;

    Just like the people did in Ayodhya when lord Rama won the war with Lord Ravana…!


    We,

    Well most Indian children like it because we are with our family, eat sweets and we are handed over money in the form of gifts and we can use it however we want when we are adults;

    But,

    when we were kids all of it was taken away from us by our parents…!

    something that still stays with us even after so many years…!


    We are together and we pray to the almighty to bless us and the people around us with life and prosperity and we also ask for forgiveness for our mistakes and shortcomings that we have and also ask for the power to get over them in the coming year…!

    We also ask the almighty—

    For a better life to those who have left for the holy abode and maybe reincarnation into another life…!


    A festival that reminds us of the people who we were with last year and their presence is missed if they aren’t with us anymore…!


    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A big family wedding and none of regrets whatsoever…!

    Describe a risk you took that you do not regret.

    24/04/2026@Waakiye

    Hey..

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    These past few days have been hectic,

    I thought to myself I was prepared for all the preparations that were require to get my sister married;

    But,

    On the first day(which is still going on as it’s 17:52 hours here;

    I had to run multiple kilometres up and down my area in search of essentials;

    and,

    On getting my hands on the things I returned home, only to be told that there was something that was needed in the same direction and also in the opposite direction and I’d leave home once again just to bring the required stuff…!

    The required stuff would be water cans and other things like dhoti and muslin cloth…!


    A responsibility that I was brought to me by fate and I had to shoulder it,

    That day is finally upon us all;

    Today is mehandi and ladies sangeet;

    And we will be free tomorrow after haldi in the afternoon;

    After which we can safely do everything we want and prepare for marriage that will be in the day after tomorrow…!


    Coming back to the prompt

    A risk that I took without any regrets…!

    There aren’t any risk I took without any short term regrets,

    because I often see alternatives that I could have chosen which would result in better outcomes and more benefits;

    But,

    There are certain places in life where I took major risks like choosing a person who didn’t come through in life as a partner;

    Other than that,

    there are risks that I took like putting my life on the line for the people who I thought were mine but,

    when push came to shove,

    they walked away from me—

    But,

    it was never their fault to begin with it was a lapse in my judgement which led me into such situation;


    At last,

    there is a gamble that I took with life with choosing writing,

    which is something that everyone around me advises me not to do for free;

    But—

    This love that I have for it,

    makes me come back and see it from a different perspective each time…!


    A risk bigger than life,

    which I don’t have any regret for;


    TTYL

    Will come back tomorrow with more…!


    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

    Swaroop of guru granth sahib ji brought to our home to bless the act…!
    Entrance of our home…!

  • Things people with p•rn addiction don’t talk about…!

    Things people with p•rn addiction don’t talk about…!

    They don’t talk about the addiction—
    how it kills them,
    their will to live too…!

    They don’t talk about waking up at 3 in the morning,
    when everyone around them is asleep,
    —-

    They wake up contemplating in their mind the niche they plan on exploring,
    searching links that they saved,
    maybe a suggestive reel online,
    or somewhat of a revealing one that’s pushes them over the edge…!

    ——

    They find themselves submitting to theses urges and complying each time to whatever the mind wants them to do,
    Not thinking it will be the one who will be the one spilling all the hate later…!

    ——

    They find themselves on their beds,
    or on the can,
    or in the shower,
    trying not to think about committing the act,
    but they often loose the battle;

    And when that happens,
    it brings them immense shame,
    Which comes bundled with hatred,
    a lack of empathy for self
    And a loss of respect for not being able to even think in a positive sense,
    much less sparking a change…!

    ——

    Before committing the act,
    it’s like they are neutral in a sense,
    Until they feel the urge to do the deed,
    it’s due to one of these readily available media that comes at their disposal,
    maybe Instagram reels or TikToks that are suggestive,
    and those clips make them think about the person behind their screen in a certain way,
    which is far from normal…!

    The corrupted thought to violate them and those ideas are sent to them on a platter by their mind…!

    Later,
    They feel a certain way about them,
    bundled with disgust,
    and hatred towards the person who they saw on the screen or imagined in their mind…

    Blocking them,
    or telling the ai,
    not to recommend them,
    and,
    If one of them slips though the cracks,
    the same cycle repeats itself…!

    ———

    Sometimes,
    they wake up at three,
    contemplating a thought——

    Knowing they will have guests over later,
    and won’t get any time free from
    them;

    So,
    their mind improvises on its own,
    it tells them to get up——

    Get up at an odd hour,
    and look at them without letting anyone know about it,
    And after being in a confined place like-
    their room,
    Their brain tells them to get off because it will be impossible later…!

    And that’s how they spend their early morning,
    finding the right clip,
    and,
    imagining themselves in the place of the person in the clip and make their mind feel the same,
    and once the act is over,
    they cry,
    cry at their sad miserable selves,
    knowing they are neck deep into this problem that shaves at their consciousness…!

    They try to talk to their G0d,
    asking for help as to get away with this way of thinking,

    asking for forgiveness as soon as they are done watching it,

    asking for a blessing that might come and save them from this problem that takes their will to survive away;

    But,
    nothing of sorts happens;
    and,
    The utter amount of shame kills them.
    And,
    when they try to open up to the people they trust——
    They are made fun of,
    and,
    they never speak about it ever again…!

    Well,
    they’re made fun of about it because that sort of things breeds within that group,
    maybe all of them are going through it,
    maybe,
    all of them are in the same boat fighting the same reality

    and for them,
    joking about it,
    or making fun of someone who is in the same boat is the way to get out of the problem…!

    A problem,
    That breeds like an infestation,
    overtakes their complete will,
    and leaves them hanging like a dead man…!

    A fight,
    they keep on losing and re-fighting,
    until—
    they erode the version they were and this person who is no longer a real one in their own vision,
    Who tries to slither and make their way,
    often failing more,
    and fighting even more,
    each day…!

    Fin

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • An open ended question…!

    An open ended question…!

    If he already knew the crux of it all,

    He already had a plan in his mind what evil was from ground up…!


    G0d’s mind was made up from the start;

    He knew what was right and what was wrong but he still sent you down here…?

    To prove what his perfect world was…!

    A perfect world where someone drinks and beats their wife and children;

    Or;

    A child is born healthy and forgets to breathe and passes away from this world…!


    So,

    If it is a perfect world,

    Where evil exists and all of the things within it,

    Then can evil be said to be, one of his creation too…?


    Or,

    Do we have to blame someone else for its creation and pin it on them…;

    Another one of its creations that will take all of the blame and try to make the world a better place by inducing change around them…!

    Even if no one believes them…?


    A thought….!


    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A mother left all alone…!

    A mother left all alone…!

    It was a lone evening,
    and we were on our way to the last few houses for the day.

    To finish early, we decided to call one of our extended relatives —
    hoping we’d be free by 7, maybe 7:30.

    We left the previous house around 6:30.

    That house was alive —
    kids running around, adults in conversation,
    teasing, laughter, talks of marriage,
    plans, and maybe a child in the coming years.

    They insisted we stay for dinner,
    but we politely refused —
    saying we had more houses to visit,
    and that we’d eat at home with my sister,
    the bride to be.

    A few minutes before 6:30, we stepped out
    and decided to walk to the last house.
    It was just a few blocks away.



    It was a four-storey house.

    We rang the bell,
    and after a moment,
    a frail old woman opened the door.

    Her fingers were curled inward,
    only the thumb moved freely.

    Imagine holding the stem of a wine glass without your thumb —
    and then living like that every day.
    (Image at the end…)

    She asked us to come in.

    ———

    Her husband had passed away suddenly
    a heart attack, in the bathroom.

    And now, she lived alone.

    Her son and daughter-in-law had moved abroad.
    The decision was made quietly,
    and told to her only weeks before they left.

    The grandchildren —
    the reason she woke up every day,
    went with them.



    She walked us upstairs slowly,
    a slight limp in her step.

    The house was big.
    Too big.

    A sofa, a television,
    three rooms, a kitchen,
    and a balcony that opened to a park outside.

    But it felt empty.



    She brought a tray.

    Two empty glasses.
    A bottle of cold water.

    She asked us to pour it ourselves.

    There was something in her eyes —
    something between hesitation and acceptance.

    I poured the water,
    and asked if she’d like some.

    She said she had already had water at 5.
    She wouldn’t need it till later.

    We couldn’t drink either.



    Her maid arrived soon after,
    and brought tea and some snacks.

    Before we left,
    she spoke about her son,
    her family,
    the sweet noise that once filled the house.

    Then she said,

    “This house…
    it’s just four walls now.
    I feel trapped inside it.”



    She picked up a the big box of bhaji (sweet)we brought

    “What will I even do with this?” she asked.
    “I won’t be able to finish it.”

    My mother smiled and said,
    “Slowly…
    you will.”

    She smiled back.



    She asked us to stay for a meal.
    We refused again.

    A few more minutes passsed,
    and after she promised to come for my sister’s wedding,
    we got up to leave.



    As we stepped out,
    something didn’t feel right.

    And then she said it.

    “They’ll find me dead someday…
    and even then, they won’t be able to come.

    Someone else will do the final rites.
    Maybe someone my daughter in law’s brother who lives nearby…!

    Because I know…
    they won’t be able to.”



    Fin.
    Her hand looked like this…!

    A sad reality that I witnessed that day,

    and felt like it had to be brought to this world…!


    Keep your loved ones near and call your parents if you haven’t,

    Meet them,

    tell them you love them,

    and hug them…!

    While you can…!


    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Two encounters that brought my hopes up…!

    Two encounters that brought my hopes up…!

    Describe a random encounter with a stranger that stuck out positively to you.

    18/04/2026@Waakiye

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It was a tough day at work yesterday,

    As I had to stand on my feet all day and compete a job that required my regular interference as we are running against time here…!

    it will be another couple of days like this and I’ll have to spend them on my feet, which will for sure hurt a bit this evening…!


    Other than that,

    All of the preparations are done just the essentials that are to be bought next week are left…!

    Some of which can be bought on spot and I’ll confirm the rest this evening to a mithai shop in Pahar Ganj soon..!

    only thing that will be left is paying the rest and picking up the boxes on the day of the function..!

    (This is somewhere we see money is everything, you pay an advance and they will happily make anything/everything you want…!)


    Coming back to the prompt

    A random encounter that stuck positively…!

    It was a cold winter’s night as I was returning to home from work…!

    I had to take a detour and drive through todapur/inderpuri area,

    The road that follows Pusa(IARI Indian agricultural research institute)

    Also called dev Prakash Shashtri marg…!

    I was travelling there on my scooty and it’s drive belt snapped in half mid drive;

    Coincidentally no one was home and I was all alone,

    as I pushed it for a good 10 minutes and looked for a mechanic but u couldn’t find anyone…!

    So a Stranger,

    A person sent from almighty came and asked me about what happened…!

    On telling him about the belt,

    he agreed to push me to the nearest mechanic;

    which was a good four, maybe five kilometres away…!

    So he put his feet on my scooter’s silencer and pushed me to the nearest mechanic,

    before I could get off near the mechanic and thank him,

    he drove off and raised his hand not above his soulder level and his palm facing inwards and he drove off away from me…!

    it was one of those instances where I wanted to thank, but I couldn’t but I really did from my heart and wished his well being…!


    Another one would be a complete stranger,

    Asking me about my well being,

    while I was sitting waiting for the last train back from Shaheed Sthal station after securing some payment from a client and maybe it was showing on my face but as soon as I opened my camera app it looked like I was on the verge of dying…!

    So he asked about me,

    Where was I from and such things,

    and if I was well…!


    On giving limited answers and not revealing much about myself,

    he sat next to me and I opened up to him,

    it was a few months after a death happened in our family and that old person told me the genetic answers,

    It’s the truth,

    and we have to accept it,

    and many other things…!

    One of the last things he told me was that the person who I liked/loved who’s no more; They won’t be happy if i kept myself in this condition any longer…!

    Those words hit hard and even if they’re no more,

    and I was living without a purpose;

    I found these strangers words like a ointment to my wounds…

    And he too walked away climbing the stairs and by that time my train came too and I boarded it and reached home…!


    Sometimes a stranger’s words do more better than anyone who is near and dear to us…!

    G0d save all those who get out of the way to check up on the people who feel like they’re carrying dread in their eyes…!


    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A bond that still exists after the person is long gone…!

    A bond that still exists after the person is long gone…!

    Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow.

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A slow morning and I skipped my morning routine today,

    I woke up thirsty at 5 in the morning and didn’t have any energy to wake up,

    so I stayed in my bed for half hour dying of thirst…!


    I got up eventually at 5:40 brushed my teeth and drank a whole jug of water and fell asleep again…!

    I woke up yet again at 7:45 with my maid and after a span of 15 minutes I was woken up yet again,

    because a person came in for the blood test of my sister…!

    I sat on my bed and waited as they took blood sample and other samples,

    And,

    A QR code was brought my way,

    and after scanning my Face ID the payment went through…!


    I was told that I can go back to sleep again…!

    like that was possible now…!?

    😢


    So I scrolled some and decided to read some pages of the book that I had on my side table…!

    A person whom I found randomly on Ig and ordered a book from them,

    their first book and I’ve loved it…

    And,

    as soon as I’m done with it,

    I’ll leave a review…!


    Coming back to the prompt

    A decision made in the past that helped me grow

    There are a lot to things that happened in the past that shaped me into who I am today..!

    There are friendships that I started that I have regret and they on their own fell off…!

    There are relationships that I started and those broke up because I wasn’t in the right space to accept a person in my life at that time,
    making it one of those things that have a significant impact on how I perceive love and affection today…!

    Because even to this day, when someone tries to come near me, my normal reaction is something of a defensive standpoint…!

    and I often tell people I don’t feel like I was made to be in love or in general liked;

    But being of help that is what I was made for….

    and I hope I did that well..!


    I had to cut off people who were spreading misinformation which came with tags that are associated with me or my name(They still are…)

    But,

    I don’t care and people already come with pre-formatted idea and their ideas break once they talk to me or get to know me more…!


    A big decision I made in life is choosing to sacrifice my regular college life,

    I spent those years learning basic things about my business and now it’s something that runs on my shoulders…!

    And spending those years interacting with people and building my profile,

    I got to spend what limited time I had with my father working with him and learning the skills..!

    and until his end I was there with him and it made our bond deeper and brought more peace and joy in his life that his next generation likes to work with their hand and embraces the legacy that he built…!


    A decision I made back then in hope that it made his life better and he was able to leave this world in peace and a sense of happiness…!

    Miss you dad forever ♾️


    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A perspective and a conversation about cremation ground…!

    A perspective and a conversation about cremation ground…!

    What place in the world do you never want to visit? Why?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Another day spent tiring myself at work after which I went out to deliver some cards and bhaji boxes,

    which will end by this evening I think…!

    😅🤞


    Work was tiring,

    but,

    A sense of accomplishment is felt by me when I feel tired and return home,

    My bed feels very precious and I want that good sleep blesses everyone after a hard day at work…!


    I also got a different perspective to view life as one of the person who I delivered the card to and the conditions they were living in broke me down;

    but,

    I couldn’t get anything on my face,

    Maybe I’ll put it out in the form of a story later this evening…!


    Coming back to the prompt

    A place that I don’t want to visit and reason behind it

    There is a truth that all of us know,

    but none of us are ready to accept it—

    We are born with a promise that we have it written in our fate—


    Death,

    it’s death I’m talking about;


    There is no bigger loss than losing someone,

    but,

    As soon as someone is born,

    they have been promised it,

    and no matter how much we try to avoid it,

    We are found by its embrace,

    Some consider it sweet,

    some painful;

    But,

    for those who are survived by them,

    it feels like a vital part of their body is taken away from them…!


    And,

    A place that I hope no one has to visit is,

    A burial ground and/or a cremation ground…!


    I know it’s an essential part of life,

    death itself is essential in a way,

    it teaches you to move ahead no matter how close the person is/was;


    But,

    the visit to such a place leaves you hanging,

    and whenever you travel infront of it,

    A mental image takes shape of the person and the act of their pyres burning or their body being lowered down into the ground…!

    Something that is necessary for the people who are dependent on it

    I.e. it’s their livelihood;


    I hope no-one has to visit it ever,

    but eventually we have to,

    and that leaves us with memories that haunt us forever,

    and after some time come to terms with it as it becomes somewhat of a common occurrence…!


    Ngl,

    I’ve seen a second death in this year,

    in our family only;

    And,

    this heart slips as soon as I get a call at odd hours;


    A place where ending is visible,

    but numerous questions remain which we are in no position to answer

    and

    practically don’t have an answer for…!


    A place where ground speaks more truth than any person or any entity ever could…!


    I hope that every soul that departs this earth finds a better afterlife,

    or,

    a better life than their last one…!


    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

    A photo I took before leaving work…!
  • What is this rage that I feel these bursts of…?

    What is this rage that I feel these bursts of…?


    It feels like I’m going to burst out of my skin ,
    If I don’t do something about it;

    And,
    If I decide to act upon it someday,
    It will either be the end of a person,
    Or
    End of me in an essence…!

    After spending a good amount of my time waiting for a product
    or
    even something that I was promised and it doesn’t happen;

    It feels like I’m going to
    blow up and burst in a fit of anger…!

    I’m meeting them after sacrificing my precious time,
    and I hope their’s is too;

    Out of nowhere comes this delay of their arrival,
    Something that they promised in the first place,
    and to be there before me too;

    And now;
    When they don't stand on their word——

    There comes a sudden burst of anger,
    an uncontrollable one,
    That makes me feel that I have less worth,
    and pushes me to get up and walk away from this meet-up…!

    I try to tell myself that they might be stuck somewhere,
    but,
    Another voice tells me that,
    ”They live here in this city and they must be aware of the time it takes and the place they chose,
    maybe it gets congested,

    Plus,
    Being wary of it,
    they should have left earlier…!”

    After having this bout with myself,
    or
    this voice of mine;
    
    I come to a conclusion to wait,
    and they appear infront of me,
    as I’m waiting there;

    And when they arrive,
    on seeing them all of the voices fade and a feeling of happiness takes over me;

    Maybe it’s some evil from within that tries to push me in a wrong direction away from people and their company,
    Wants me to rot in my room all alone;

    But,
    Not trusting it for a while
    Enduring it for a little while,
    it makes all of it worth it;

    A message from this heart to yours…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍