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  • A grocery haul for a typical family…

    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 🤍

  • In your ethics or not..?

    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🤍

  • Struggles with Sleep and Morning Wake-Up Times

    Struggles with Sleep and Morning Wake-Up Times

    Daily writing prompt
    What time do you go to bed and wake up currently?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…

    All that comfort in the life finding prompt yesterday,
    where I talked a lot of things that I do on good days,
    but,
    none of them had a mention of bad days that are there too,
    so here it goes…

    There are a few days when I return home late from work,
    around 10 at night from work,
    and I am tired and hungry,
    Confused from all the piled-up responsibilities,
    and deadlines that were supposed to be met but weren’t…

    All of the work comes crashing,
    and then it’s on me to complete it,
    or get it completed asap,
    even though the timelines as usual were impossible to achieve,
    making it a race against time as usual,
    making it possible someday,
    but other days its miserable…

    When I return home around 10 at night,
    the usual routine takes a hit,
    the tiredness takes over,
    and Lethargy follows,
    the schedule which is used to take half an hour at most,
    takes around an hour,
    hour and a half on worse days…

    The night shower is spent in contemplating what if’s,
    and how would the deadlines be met the next day,
    and before I can look up at the clock it turned 11 PM,
    so,
    I hurry and get out of the bath and plate my dinner,
    and have it while watching some videos or something informative,
    and before I could peel myself away from the screen,
    it was 11:45 at night..

    After which I tidy my room a bit,
    which pushes the time well after 12 Am,
    and when I look at the clock,
    it stuck 00:15 hours,
    hurriedly I get in my bed,
    and guess what,
    I CAN’T SLEEP ANYMORE.
    spending another 15 to 30 minutes changing sides,
    trying to fall asleep…

    All of this continues on until 1 in the morning,
    on bad days until 2 in the morning,
    which makes it impossible to wake up at 6 or 7 usually in the morning,
    So,
    I wake up at 8 or 8:30 in the morning,
    making,
    it that sort of a day,
    a messed-up start,
    repercussions of which follow throughout the day…

    Shouldn’t this day be Friday already…?

    Cheers 🥂?

    Love Waakiye 🤍