Waakiye

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  • Astute observations and sensible chuckles…

    Astute observations and sensible chuckles…

    What makes you laugh?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It’s currently 7:44 in the morning and it’s a fast paced Sunday for me…

    It’s about to be 8 in a couple of minutes and the rest of the day will run fast too;

    I cannot tell you why is that,

    But I do remember making a post about time quickening;

    And I’ll attach the link below 👇

    Already answered prompts and the Time Quickening…!

    A topic that I answered some time back when a string of already answered prompts came to me…!

    (Khair…)

    It was a mildly busy day yesterday;

    A few jobs that we had to finish by the evening,

    And it was safe return back home;

    I don’t remember much about last night tho,

    Eating food,

    Roaming a bit and writing something about the situation that is going on right now and then falling asleep with my phone in my hand;

    On waking up at 3:53 to the sounds of dogs howling and finding no one I came back and tried to fall asleep,

    But that didn’t happen for at least half an hour;

    So I picked up my phone and on seeing 25% I put it on my wireless charger and picked my other phone up…!

    After scrolling reels for half hour,

    I fell asleep again and woke up at 7 in the morning…

    And here we are—

    Coming back to the prompt

    What makes me laugh…?

    I really don’t know…!

    Thinking on the top of my head it would be some funny videos,

    Particularly if I were to mention a duo,

    It would be from Albela TV;

    Mainly Saleem albela and Goga Pasroori ;

    They are a duo from Pakistan and they put themselves in situations and tease each other by taking jabs at each other in jokes;

    Which are called Jugat or चुटकुले in Hindi…

    —

    When I’m down or feeling sad or bad,

    I usually watch a video or two by them and all sadness fades away as I laugh so hard each time…!

    Other than that,

    When I’m with my friends,

    And people who I deeply love and care for;

    —

    We usually end up in laughter each time we meet talking about the situation we are in and the funny things that happen to us;

    The jokes deepen and we end up stopping each other to catch our breaths…!

    Other than that,

    I look at the conditions that we have pulled ourselves in by our representatives that we chose and brought to power;

    The increase in crime and rising hatred towards each other(specifically women and girls child)

    It is a blessing of those people who advocated that survival is trivial and by saying

    “हमारा देश खतरे में है,

    हिंदू धर्म खतरे में है…!”

    —

    But,

    When you look at it from afar,

    You see all of the high level positions taken up by Hindu;

    —

    So you’d think they’d at least be secure of the fact that they are safe and none of their people in their surroundings would give up on them…?

    But,

    It doesn’t work like that,

    They feel fear and incite it amongst the masses…

    —

    And there are people who believe that there is fear and that fact is funny to me;

    —

    Funny to a point that I have a sensible chuckle about it that never in my life have I seen such a blatant disregard towards other people who don’t belong to the same religion as you…!

    A thought that lingers longer than it should in my mind…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A dream I must have had at age five…!

    A dream I must have had at age five…!

    When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It’s a Saturday for me here and I hope you too are blessed to see the light of this day…!

    —

    Spend some time in sunlight,

    Just sit; don’t move or worry about anything,

    Just absorb it for maybe 10 minutes…!

    —

    It’s currently 7:39 in the morning as I’m writing this one…!

    —

    Nothing much happened yesterday,

    It was a usual business day but I had to return earlier to decide on the cards that we have to give to our relatives and those who live around us to invite people to my sister’s wedding…!

    —

    And after deciding on a raw version of the script I wrote with my sister and mom,

    We are on the process of refining it and it will be done today,

    And it will be sent for printing…

    —

    Oh,

    The days are getting close,

    But so is this voice in my heart that feels sad because she will be going away,

    Our chatterbox and source of chaos is going away…!

    🥲🥹

    (Khair…)

    Life it is…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    My plans for the future when I was five

    When I was five I was probably in LKG,

    A step above nursery,

    Junior kindergarten for those who don’t understand it…!

    I was probably learning numbers and alphabets,

    Maybe I was reading them on my own with errors,

    Filling those books which had big letters and they gave us directions like slanting line, straight line or a line across…!

    And I was filling them up chaotically and also messing them up BIG TIME 😂

    I think this is the time I was learning to join words and learning about my family or my parents,

    Learning basic shapes and concepts of things that helped me be who I am today…!

    I hope you recognise what I’m trying to get at…!

    I couldn’t get enough of what was happening and I think I wouldn’t even be thinking about my future;

    All I would be thinking about is what I am going to do tomorrow when I walk into that class of mine and what is going to be in the lunchbox which I am going to share with my newfound friends…!

    I think I’d have in mind to be a teacher because each day we looked upto them and we would’ve been in awe,

    Like how she knew so much about things that we were learning…!

    Other than that,

    I must have been inspired to be a fireman or an artist;

    The range goes way beyond this tbh;

    We were blank slates,

    Pure at hearts,

    Waiting to be painted and then presented to the world…

    I wouldn’t have given two thoughts about my future but my daily life that would have been a blast let me tell you that,

    Meeting friends and messing up while learning;

    Can we ever get that back,

    Those times back…?!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A promise and an obsession…!

    A promise and an obsession…!

    How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    After spending last evening feeling bad about something, even I don’t know about;

    Maybe it’s the situation that I’m trapped in right now,

    Or,

    Maybe the pileup of responsibilities that have gotten heavier as each day passes,

    I wrote about the sweet nature of death in hinglish and the circular nature of grief;

    Technically about those who were once with you but now they aren’t;

    But now they lay flat in the ground or their ashes sit in an urn or maybe the same ashes were put into to a river that is considered holy…!

    The piece waits to scratch something hidden within your heart or a memory waiting to be remembered once again;

    —

    That’s how it felt as I was writing this one;

    —

    Remembering those who have gone far away,

    Maybe they have taken birth into this world again or they’re free from the cycle;

    Maybe this evening…

    (Please remind me because I’ve become more forgetful…)

    Coming back to the prompt…

    Saying “No” when my goals are at stake…!

    It might not seem like it but,

    When things come to my dreams and my goals I quit everything that is around me…!

    I turn away from things no matter how important it might be,

    I just up and walk in the general direction that leads me to the place that demand my attention…!

    Even if it means taking myself away from the short term things that help me survive daily…!

    One of those is my business,

    For its betterment I’ve given up practically my whole life and not pursue my college education,

    Only because of a person who isn’t there with us anymore,

    But,

    A promise made to that person stays with me,

    Maybe he’s watching me from afar,

    And thinking to himself that,

    He is still working each day and is keeping his word…!

    —-

    So, for a promise and a dream that we took together,

    A son still works even when he doesn’t want to…!

    Other one is writing

    For this,

    All of this, for this penmanship I’ve been to places that are dingiest ones I’ve seen—

    .

    I’ve been to places that you wouldn’t otherwise even think of going physically and mentally…!

    .

    Fixated on things for weeks at a single span and when something fruitful comes out of it;

    .

    It’s for the world to enjoy as much as it was for me to write…

    .

    I’ve said no to loved ones in the past for leaving me behind to come up with things that I never regret….!

    It would make you think that there isn’t much that I have to survive,

    .

    A medley of these two things;

    .

    And just like that,

    I’ve found a reason to live,

    A reason to survive each day;

    A promise to someone and an obsession that keeps me functioning…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Early morning Railway station visit and getting better at pattern recognition…!

    Early morning Railway station visit and getting better at pattern recognition…!

    What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    This day was stated early as I had to drop a family member who was with us for the past few weeks,

    So we travelled to New Delhi railway station early in the morning as she had to leave for Panjab;

    In the morning train called Shan-e-Panjab…

    A speedy click that led to this perspective like I’m running away…
    Me on my way back after getting them seated, up the escalators….

    You’d be happy to know how much they have improved on their services;

    But,

    The crowd is still the same,

    No matter what happens, you cannot take the human nature out of us humans can you…?

    After getting her seated,

    I came back home and after sitting down for a while I came on my terrace,

    And the same routine follows—-

    Coming back to the prompt…

    Secret ability I wish I had…

    If I were given a chance to be blessed with an ability,

    “I’d love to get a better grasp at reading behaviours and patterns that all of us humans (intentionally or unintentionally) make…”

    I know it’s a bit of a reach for a person like me to achieve that;

    But,

    Keeping on trying and exploring means that I will achieve it someday…!

    It will help me both in write ups, my regular life and business life too;

    Because I’d get better at making a client comfortable and better form myself to come to the unified terms which benefit both of us…!

    In my personal life,

    I’d get a chance to get to know what they really want before they come to any conclusions,

    But that doesn’t mean I’d jump the gun as soon as I find an answer;

    I’d let them come to a conclusion naturally,

    And,

    Never cut them off or the conversation abruptly making them think I know what they were talking about or what they wanted…!

    If I was ever imparted with this ability, I would get to know more about humans as being and human nature which comes to us from us being ourselves…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Time, Temptations, and the Roads We Choose…

    Time, Temptations, and the Roads We Choose…

    You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike?

    Hey…

    —

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    —

    After waking up at 7:30 and wanting to stay a bit more in my bed made me realise it’s almost 8;

    I got up and changed my clothes and went out on my walk after my morning routine..!

    —

    It’s currently 8:05 in the morning as I’m writing this one…!

    —

    I’m really thinking what is there to talk about and what happened yesterday…!

    In the evening,

    I really wanted to have a drink as I stared at those bottles for in my cabinet;

    —

    Well,

    Those glass bottles remind me of happy times that I spent with people around me,

    But;

    They also make me realise those night I spent drinking all alone,

    And drinking until I couldn’t and then going to sleep…!

    Both the positives and negatives of drinking(heavy emphasis on the negatives…)

    Well you’re socialising,

    I know,

    But it harms,

    Even a drop harms when it comes to your body…!

    —

    In that case the mind wants more and more each time…!

    —

    The glass is empty and your friend’s isn’t,

    He’ll pour you another one…

    A dangerous cycle it becomes…!

    (Khair…)

    It’s better to quit when you can,

    Before all of the bills pile up and you are spending your days in recovery…!

    —

    Beware it’s a habit that kills, along with smoking and those hard drugs…

    Coming back to the prompt

    Cross country trip and my mode of transportation…!

    Well,

    This prompt critically sums up a problem within that isn’t visible on the surface…

    It’s your opinion on how do you value time…?

    When travelling by air,

    You reduce time spent travelling to mere hours or maximum of 20 hours from wherever you stand…!

    —

    And when you look at it,

    You get the shortest path from one point to other…

    But by traveling by air,

    You cannot get to know people that you would otherwise on any other mode of transportation..!

    —

    And even if you consider the person sitting on your left , right or both if you’re sitting in the middle…!

    If you’re travelling by train,

    You’ll find people from all walks of life,

    From bottom to upper class a mix that you won’t find anywhere…!

    —

    They travel with the same purpose of reaching from point A to point B,

    And you can pay more to reach there faster,

    But that is at no comparison with travelling by air as it takes significant more hours and days at a time to reach if you want to even travel within the national borders…!

    Travelling by bus is a worth if you travel a lot though the night;

    Because you can sit in a bus in the evening around 6 and by 6 in the morning you can travel well across national borders,

    You can go one/two states over…!

    —

    Accounting in it maybe an hour or two of stopping for passengers and their wellness…!

    Well at last comes travelling by car/bike

    Something that I live and have immense love for…!

    —

    You can travel at your pace,

    Absorbing everything that comes with it…

    By meeting new people and comeing across avenues of life that weren’t possible travelling any other way…

    —

    Because if you see a picturesque scene,

    You can just stop,

    Jump out of your car or off your bike absorbing everything that exists and maybe take a few pictures as a keepsake…!

    —

    Also you meet people who are either going or coming back from the place that you want to go…

    —

    You can travel at your pace and return as you wish,

    A drawback that it’s the slowest form of travel and takes more than hours and days, weeks if you plan on travelling cross borders(plural borders…!)

    How to save travel time is essentially the question here…!

    And how you value your time differs from person to person..!

    —

    If you want to travel fast and reach quicker travelling by air is you go to,

    All other options are considerably less when compared to airway but with their own pros and cons…!

    If I had a chance I would travel cross borders on my car,

    If I can get my hands on such free and open time in my tightly packed schedule;

    Along with the money to afford visas and regular maintenance of the ride and those who are tagging along with me,

    My loved ones…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Two phases in my life that were hard to let go…

    Two phases in my life that were hard to let go…

    Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It feels after a long time a prompt has come that I haven’t answered, and I’m all in for making this one a good read also to explore an avenue in my life that I suppressed…!

    A view into my life first, I’ve been looking for banquets each day after work and I’ve decided on two who are near the gurudwara which makes the travel easier and other programmes seamlessly connect with each other…!

    Well both of them are far from our home because we don’t have a banquet near our home…!

    So a lot of time has went into considering a good place and getting more out of our money…!

    Other than that,

    Work is going well,

    Because we are working each day and exploring new avenues and way to achieve the goals that we desire…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    A phase which was difficult to say goodbye to

    It isn’t easier to let go of things that made an impact in our lives isn’t it…?

    But,

    There are certain things that make them all worth your while and leave an everlasting impression on you…!

    Well losing someone who’s close to our hearts would be the first one…!

    A female dog birthed two kids and passed away right infront of our house;

    We took in her kids and within a span of few weeks both of them passed away as they were very little and weren’t able to get their mothers feed which was very important for their growth and their first few weeks here on earth…!

    We tried to get another female dog that also birthed a litter of puppies a few kilometres away but she rejected them and tried to bite them when we let them within her litter…

    On the offset that she might run away from her kids we brought them to our home and tried our best to save them—

    But fate had something else planned…!

    (Khair…)

    Another one would be parting away from someone who we thought were the love of our life…!

    Imagine you building your life around someone and they give up on you because their family planned something else or they found a more viable partner…?

    Something that breaks you from the very core and a mere sense of trust that you had breaks and shatters, making you lose yourself…!

    Well I hope it doesn’t happen with anyone else ever again…!

    I think,

    The things that happen around us shape us in a way that we were meant to have a grab of—

    I don’t mean passing away of a loved one is something that is good or builds character;

    But,

    It gives you a chance to see into the life by letting you see who is a real one and who was in just to leech off of you…!

    Who stands with you when time isn’t working with you…!

    And who all move away from you or face away when you get the short end of the stick…!

    Let’s not forget that all of us have to taste the sweet embrace of death once in our life and we won’t be here to witness what it feels like…!

    Keep those who are near to you near and tell them you love them…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

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

    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 🤍

  • Planning my next few months…!

    Planning my next few months…!

    What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?

    Hey…!

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    The last nights prompt took away a lot of things that I wanted to say today…!

    🙈

    But, after a long time a prompt has come in that I haven’t answered and this has given me some ideas…!

    And a break from me posting my unusual stuff that I write…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    Biggest challenge that I will face in the next six months

    It’s a bit crazy how the world moves, because up until beginning of the year 2026;

    I didn’t have any concrete plans, they were still to lay low, work hard in the shadows and come back out with more power in a year or two…!

    Making this year of struggles and winning some personal battles with myself and things that hold me back…!

    Until, the marriage of my sister was decided in the month of April…!

    For which everything has sprung into action and there are things happening that are done by me and taken into account to guide anyone who comes to me in the near future for help on how to manage or do a programme like this one…!

    There will be many things that will happen and they will change my viewpoint on now to view people, their behavior and also how those who will sit in our blind spots and fill the ears of our relatives and question how we were able to afford these things…!

    Everything will happen…!

    Including us missing the presence of our father as all of this happens…!🥲

    A huge lump that all of us carry within our hearts and can never ever seem to fill…!

    Otherwise it’s all good and future will be the witness to all that’s yet to come…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A busy day and an advice to my younger self…!

    A busy day and an advice to my younger self…!

    What advice would you give to your teenage self?

    Hey…!

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    I’m making this prompt at 8:32 at night,

    A nice change of pace this is…!

    There are a lot of things that I had to do today, one of them being looking for banquets for my sister’s wedding function…!

    And let me tell you this,

    The prices are outrageous, even if we have a programme for lunch they are quoting 3.5 to 4 lakhs for a programme that lasts 6 hours—

    10:30 am to 4:30 pm…!

    I’ve been dead tired spending my evening from these past few weeks searching one or two banquets each day…!

    Things that you have to do when you don’t have a father figure in your life…! 🤷

    Well it would have been a better support and something of a confidence booster but,

    There are something that you have to do on your own and life pushes you to do them too…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    An advice to my teenage self…!

    Spend as much time as you can with your parents and grandparents because they aren’t going to be in your life much longer…!

    And no matter how much the difference comes in within your thinking and theirs, you can nod your head and continue to work on things that you like, things that you love…!

    Even if this won’t give you money or earning in the short run it will help you get experience and a way to live this life better…!

    They won’t be available for all the time so just enjoy their company and the time that you can spend with them…!

    Maybe ask them about their childhood;

    How were they brought up and what they used to do…!

    You’ll for sure hear some tales that you can tell your kids someday and if you’re fortunate enough you can get your kids to hear them from them directly…!

    Well not in my case but it can be possible in yours…!

    Well don’t forget about telling your younger self about buying bitcoin in bulk and keeping it until 2026…!

    Remember the last advice and this is a last moment update(🙏🏻)

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Eyes of children who never forget…!

    Eyes of children who never forget…!

    What bores you?

    Hey…!

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    I don’t know how to tell you this but being consistent on this app has made me come to terms with the fact that most of the prompts are recycled…!

    This prompt was answered by me back in 2025 somewhere in the month of February…!

    I really got bored of the thing that I have to recycle,

    Well not recycle but sell you the same prompt yet again which I think hurts my creative front because of a promise I made to myself before I began writing…!

    So instead of the prompt you get one of my write ups today too,

    But it will be disguised in the form of prompt to give all of this a push that it definitely needs…!!!

    Eyes of children who never forget…


    There linger some feelings,
    Some emotions unspoken of;


    Some words with-held,
    Not brought to these lips,
    To keep those dear to us near…

    Whom we considered our own,
    Once pure,
    Now they won’t stay with us,
    Those known faces became unknown…

    They call our eyes droopy,
    A face that seems off,
    Hasn’t witnessed a shread of happiness in years,
    Dark circles that grow day by day,
    And the light of the eyes that diminishes as each day pass…!

    The eyes,
    Those eyes never forget…

    Unkept hair,
    A bunch of facial hair that grows haphazardly;
    Those dead-fish eyes that scare everyone,
    And staring into them feels like a slipping slope;


    Once you fell into them—surrounded by darkness you feel,
    With no clue what hurt them or continues to,
    they walk away from you without a care in this world…

    A sense of relief is seen in them when they indulge in their vice,
    A line of pure white,
    A pill with a happy face,
    A tab or two,
    Or a bottle that’s waiting to be emptied;

    When the white of the eyes turn red,
    Bloodshot—
    Only then,
    In a sense of euphoria,
    A sliver of smile comes on the face…

    On rare occasions we wish,
    These vices weren’t the only thing that made us smile,
    Made us feel— More human,

    But;


    As the buzz wears off,
    We are back to our self,
    Our usual miserable selves…


    With those eyes,
    We stare,
    With a sense that tries to find a meaning in everything;

    A thought comes to our mind,
    Here we are—
    “Here we are still alive…”

    Those are the eyes of children who never forget…

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍