Tag: love

Answering a question about life and my relationship with fictional books…!

What books do you want to read?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

A good Tuesday morning and I slept so good;

Because last night as I made a post here which basically discussed what counts as a fulfilling marriage to you…!

Which became a type of prompt for those people who are in my WhatsApp and they answered in one word;

Which became a challenge for me until the afternoon of Monday until I reached home and killed the whole topic within a span of few hours, because I already had the base words and the concept I wanted to prove ready…!

The said prompt in question

What One-Word Answers Taught Me About Marriage

My answer to the question…!

And I slept late yes,

Around 3:30 am because as soon as I was done with it, I dozed off for an hour and I was like “this will come haunt me later…”

So I woke up at 8:30 in the morning,

And I have to survive this whole day on 5 hours of sleep…! 🫩🫩

Yup,

A problem brought on me by myself;

(Khair…)

Coming back to the prompt

What books do I want to read…!

There are many books that I have with me which just sit in my bookshelf and there isn’t something that I want to read specifically…!

But there is something that bugs me,

I love a good book;

like an inch thick book works for me; (in height)

Anything that is more than that seems like a challenge to even look at…

Because when you’re more of a writer who loves to work around things and provide people with concepts and information in clear and concise manner;

These thick books makes no sense…!

I mean I don’t want to ruin fiction for anyone, but most of my work tends to revolve around reality and the things that happen naturally in life and when things stray far away from it,

It feels like I cannot relate to it anymore…!

That’s my reason,

I want to spark a change in me to be able to read fiction, because I like to watch movies and plays which are based on sometimes real sometimes fictional characters;

Which doesn’t necessarily make me hate it or avoid it at all costs…!

Does it make any sense to you…!?

I really hope it does;

Happy Tuesday…

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

27/01/2026
Leisure activities and grateful for my younger self…!

What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

Guess what I am up today at 6:23 am;

My mental clock is going back ever so slightly and I can’t seem to grasp why; why is that my hours of sleep is reducing but I can’t feel it…!

(Maybe a crash is coming…!)

Maybe this is because I’ve introduced myself to a sleeping earlier…? Because I usually went to sleep around midnight but I remember going to sleep around 11:30 last night;

An half hour before my routine…

A crazy idea just came if I go to sleep at 10:30 maybe I can wake up at 5 am in the morning…

(Khair…)

It’s a Sunday and I hope all of you wake up well rested and happy…!

But those who work in the corporate world will wake up thinking it’s the last day of the freedom…;

But wait; it’s a good thing for people working in India as tomorrow is a holiday for all of you because it’s 26th of January; which is celebrated as Republic Day of India 🇮🇳

I hope some of you went out to enjoy the long weekend outside Delhi because most of the workforce sits at home and very few things are open on the Republic Day…!

Well most of the old Delhi is cordoned off by Delhi police and the area is under military watch as the entire area becomes a sensitive zone which is prone to attacks and illegal activities; so they begin shutting down the shops on the main roads a day of two before the actual day that is celebrated which is 26th of January; so the shops are closed from 24th to 26th afternoon maybe…!

I’ll get you the whole detail tomorrow itself…!

Coming back to the prompt…!

What do I enjoy doing most in my leisure time…?

First of all “What is leisure time…?”

Because today I woke up earlier by cutting my sleep by an hour and a half to make some time for things that I have been postponing for the past week…!

I don’t know why I was pushing it further; Because it should have been done already— let me not fill your mind up by unnecessary chatter of mine…!

This is the scene from my view right now; Overcast and some sunlight coming into my view..! And yes those are my glasses and under that is a toffee called Melody(which I got as the shopkeeper didn’t have loose change…)

I love to catch up on sleep if I find some leisure time😭😂 (clearly not a joke…)

I love to listen to music and pen down my thoughts, so I do that whenever I get some free time on my hands…!

Other than that I am introducing myself to movies once again because my attention span has deteriorated so much that I can’t seem to sit still without checking out other devices;

After a few minutes;

On the first screen I’m watching a movie;

On the other one I’m scrolling a reel

and on other one I’m searching the details about the movie…!

Yup that’s how it is for me….!

I’ve tried to play some games too (online ones) but that makes my head spin after looking at the screen for like 10 minutes…!

And I planned on buying a ps5 for myself which I know will collect dust because I won’t have enough time to play;

Earlier it was all about affording one and being able to afford the games that are upwards of INR 5k, a single copy…

To many that might seem a wastage of money but to a child who loves to play games it’s something that brings them immense joy and happiness…!

And when it became possible to afford games life happened;

Now I look back and thank my Timid self for keeping in control and not buying a console…!

That’s all for today;

You can go and follow your routine or do let me know what do you do during your leisure time in the comments down below… 👇

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

25/01/2026
Societal problems and a conversation on Indian flatbreads…

Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

A Saturday it is and my eyes opened at 7:26 yet again I don’t know what is going on but my eyes seem to open again earlier than my schedule now twice in a row;

But it’s good for me as I now have more time to do what I want and need to get things done sooner than before…!

This Saturday morning came to me with some surprises and some questions;

A friend of my sister, practicing law, was teased by a senior lawyer under whom she’s working, she told all of this to my sister and she hasn’t picked up any call from her past 2 days;

I have told(my sister) to pay her a visit and if she’s not comfortable she can visit our home and talk all about it to her, and discuss the matter in depth to her…!

If men could keep it in our pants, this world would be a much better place…!

—

Another one is a problem regarding my nephew;

He is showing the behavior of someone who is acting really scared all the time and calls their parents on little things at school…!

His behavior has drastically changed and has caused all of us move in panic and look for solutions all along…!

We advised to let the school’s counsellor take a look and guide them to take a proper course of action;

And she told us to look for a therapist(we don’t call it a psychologist because that makes us look coo-coo, an inherent trait that some of us Indians carry…)

The therapist came to a conclusion that he saw something like a scary movie even after he was told not to and advised to go play with children in the other room;

He himself sat there and it alternated something in him causing him to be paranoid about that later in a few days…!

Right now he’s recovering as a few sessions take place and he will be coming to stay with us on Sunday if possible…!

I’ll let you guys know how it goes…!

Coming back to the prompt

An attraction or a town close to home I haven’t visited…!

There’s a place called MURTHAL , I’m pretty sure all of you have heard it before;

And it’s ridiculously famous for its paranthas(flatbread with filing in it), served with white butter and creamy lassi…!

People traveling between Delhi and chandigarh often make a pit stop there to have the said delicacy…!

The only thing is paranthas are available everywhere, in Delhi which has a street called (परांठे वाली गली) paranthe wali gali…

An entire street is dedicated to them as there are shops both on the left and right which sell paranthas with the same white butter, lassi and subzi(vegetable curry) too…!

Is it worth the hype, I’ll let all of you know if I am fortunate enough to go there or pay a visit to the place myself in an update…!

For the time being, we will have what we have at home and call it a day…😭😂

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye

24/01/2026
Light showers and events that bring me happiness…
List five things you do for fun.

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

A cold morning it was and Delhi has finally been blessed by rain today…!

I don’t know why but my eyes opened at 7:34 am this morning and as soon as I saw out of my window I saw the perfect weather for rain…!

All of the sunlight blocked and it appeared grey, which now has turned into some sunlight peering through the skies…!

A view from my window…!

Due to which I had to skip my morning walks but I took a few circles around my terrace…!

With that being said I have my work cut out for me as it’s a Friday and I have to deep clean my room, and remove the clutter…!

Which will happen after I make this post public;

Until then I can think, curled up in this cozy blanket and complete it with all my mind…!

Coming back to the prompt

Five things I do for fun

Well,

You’ll be surprised to know that not much fun goes on in my life, I usually keep things neutral not to happy not too sad, but my mother immediately finds if something wrong with me as soon as they take a look at my face…

I don’t know how that’s possible but that’s what happen when someone births you and has taken care of you your entire life;

They know you though and through…!

Let’s not go astray from the topic…

Let me tell you things I do for fun—
- I like to watch plays which are rare like once every two or three weeks but it feels like I become a new person as I walk out of the theatre/auditorium…!
- I like to go on walks and explore the possibilities of finding new avenues of life, even when I go outside I keep my eyes out in the distance so I don’t trip firstly and also to get an insight into the life’s of people who are ready to talk…
- I like to hang out with my friends, whenever schedule permits we usually set a place or just hang out around each other’s house have something to drink like tea/coffee or something light; we don’t usually meet for food but a breakfast escape is due from a long time…!
- I love to read, well not much these days but I do have books that I’ve bought and love to read them once I get time(I know I can’t get anything more out of these 24 hours…)
- The last thing that I do, that I love is journaling; I do that each day and pen down thoughts and dreams that I have which makes me clear my mind of the negative thoughts, not necessarily in my phone but also in a diary that I carry with me everywhere…!
These are the things that I do for fun, and I hope you also do some things that shift you from your monotonous routine into something that helps you to break your cycle…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍
23/01/2026
A deep question and sincere apologies to our pets…

If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…

A not so cold Thursday morning it is, honest to G0d I slept in shorts and a single T and even then I was feeling hot in the blanket so you know what I did; I put one of my legs outside and the rest of my body was in the blanket…

Haha 🤣

The morning walk was brisk and good and I met the street dogs as usual and I will remember to carry some dog biscuits for them tomorrow morning…!

Also;

I wrote a question on my WhatsApp status and got good answers too,

It was

What counts as a fulfilling marriage to you…?

And I got soo many responses;

it was crazy to jus keep up with them…

It would be great if I could get some answers so I can come up with a post late tonight about this topic as I’m working on it right now…!

A fulfilling marriage indeed, is it supposed to be fulfilling according to you…?

Coming back to the prompt

Making your pet understand one thing…!

It’s such a beautiful prompt that all of the pet owners have something that they want to let their pets(well in some cases their children) known…!

They want to make them understand that they are loved,

And basic things like you shouldn’t poop in the house like the couch or the carpet, outside would be good …!

We go to work to earn money for treats and the shoes that we own aren’t toys because they cost an arm and a leg maybe the whole left side(considering the amount of shoes my dogs have chewed till this date…)

For me,

The most important thing would be a dual question…!

The first would be,

What was the dream in which you started to shake which happens once every blue moon…?

I’d like to decipher and protect them and let the entire world know how can we help them and prevent it…!

It was a dream and dreams are not real is what I’d like to make them understand, and they are safe within this warm house and in our embrace…!

Another one would be something that is selfish on all our part(Most of our part…)

We(each of us pet owners) would like to apologise to them, for pulling them away from their mothers…!

This is a guilt that we all carry in our subconscious, I know;

Well one of my dogs is a rescue because their mom passed to the world beyond this one and she left her child infront of our door and in the morning, and we found her breathing her last breath infront of us because she was poisoned by someone…!

Cruel world…!

So we took her in and embraced her as a part of our family, and she lives happily with us…!

These two questions(one question and another statement) are something that I’d definitely ask/tell them…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

22/01/2026
Quitting tracking these 24 hours and a few work tasks…!

What’s your dream job?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

It’s a calm Tuesday morning and I feel a bit better about today, because I already have in control what all I have to do at work today;

It usually is predictable; for example I have to finish a specific task like there are 476 pcs that needs to be chamfered on a single side and I think it will take around two and a half hour maybe three but it shouldn’t take any more than that;

And after that I’m getting onto a turning job that has been sitting on for so long that a layer of dust has formed on the raw material;

Which I plan to finish by this day’s end too,

After that I will go to some regular task like making some material that goes out on the regular…!

Enough chatter about work,

Well it was a nice intro to the type of work that I do, but it seem a lot more easy looking from an outside pov but when it comes to doing an actual industrial job; it really breaks your back and gives you so much more challenges that you have to keep on thinking to make it work…!

Coming back to the prompt…

My dream job…!

Let me begin by saying that, there’s no chance and no amount of money that will get me to dream about a job…!

Well those would be nightmares that can have me sitting in a confined space and make we work…!

No other way 😂

Let’s not steer away from the prompt—

A real dream job would be to be free enough to work on things that I like,

I mean having a cup of tea/coffee and sitting in mountains somewhere, where I would have a place called home and in such environment I am free enough to come up with much better posts and stories than what I do right now..!

(Some of it is also dependent on seeing people and the type of things that happen around me sparking a change within me…)

Because most of my time is eaten away by work 10+hours daily(good days)

And the remaining is spend in driving to and fro, some additional work that pops up, hanging out at my usual tea shop, forming ideas and thoughts into what becomes a post;

(Sometimes they just take up memory in my phone…!)

But all of that happens for a reason and that’s what I say to myself and keep on working even if it seems tedious to someone who looks from outside…!

Just like now,

I’m working on this post and having a conversation with a friend and helping my sister open an account online…!

Multitasking is the way to go when these 24 hours seem short, shorter than what they usually seemed to be earlier…!

A dream job would be that I’m free from tracking these 24 hours and I’m in a space that I can work on things I like while also working with my hands occasionally;

Which keeps me grounded and helps me earn a bit too while also helping those who are working for me…!

A dream job that employs people and gives them enough that their life becomes easier would be the best…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

20/01/2026
Insatiable human greed and life in the out in the middle of nowhere…!

If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

Hey

I hope all of you are doing well…!

A calm Sunday morning it is; I have some guests over and we spent the night eating and talking about our life;

We talked about their lives in Ambala, Haryana and how connected they are to the nature because they are surrounded by fields that have plantations of wheat, sugarcane, other crops and hay all year round…!

They were talking about how breathing is easier and how they just ask their neighbours and they allow them to take something that they need from the fields that have grown fully;

They had spinach a few weeks back and they said it was absolutely delicious…!

Ooh to live this chaotic life behind and be one with nature…!

But all of this comes with a price;

Nothing is near,

They have to travel 30-45 kilometres to reach their workplace and travel the same distance back to their homes;

Also, the shops are a few kilometres away from their place of residence a they need to have a two wheeler to travel back and fro even for basic things…!

The boon and bane of living in a Pind(rural hometown)…!

Coming back to the prompt

Un-inventing something…?!

Hmm; this got me thinking,

There are things like nuclear bombs that are bad;

but;

We are finding good use of them in nuclear power plants that provide a safer form of electricity;

A non renewable source but its low carbon emissions help our short term goals…!

So,

A perfect thing to un-invent; (well I wouldn’t call it un-invent) I’ll search the word later;

I would remove homelessness;

It an inverse sense it would mean to make housing affordable for the unfortunate;

Because there are a lot of things associated with a house, your Id cards, your workplace requires you to have a house to send your paycheque, your bank requires you to have a house where they can send you bank documents like cards and such…!

Basically your survival is dependent on you having a roof over your head and when even that isn’t available the survival becomes extremely tricky…!

So making housing affordable,

Or by un-inventing the insatiable greed that humans have; we would be a great success from the bottom up…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

18/01/2026
Cold winter mornings and some words from my heart…

Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

A cold Saturday morning that started at 7:34 AM for me, I found myself surrounded by my electronics A tablet, my phones and cables;

I don’t remember when and how I fell asleep last night without putting my devices on charging and I am waking up with 12% on this device and 15% on the other one…!

Let’s leave it at that…!(Wait no let me put them at charge first…)

A Saturday it is and I hope you are in your beds have a quilt over you that is providing much needed warmth in this cold harsh winter morning…!

There are a few people in my group that become addicted to Old Monk as soon as winter starts to hit them, some just bring one or two bottles of Morpheus(enough to last the whole winter) and take a sip of it in hot water as soon as they start to feel under the weather (Dawa Daaru…) 🥴

And then there are people like me who just sit in their beds and fall asleep just like that and run on sheer dedication without the support of any external forces to guide them, and when we get sick(Rarely) it usually means running to doctors and pharmacies to get our medicine…!

This in no way advocates that drinking is good for your health; there are things that won’t ever be good for your health—

drinking and smoking being a few of them…!

Coming back to the prompt…!

A positive example of when I’ve felt loved…!

How can I say this, but I’ve always been on the short end of the stick; I’ve seen people feel emotional and talk their heart out to me;

Trust me with their secrets, found acceptance and answers that they weren’t ready for yet…!

I’ve been the support system for many;

Some of who are still in contact with me, some who aren’t they too have turned out to be vibrant people; living their life to the fullest and I’m really happy for them…!

I’ve helped people come out of their slumps, talked them into giving another chance at love and found their partner;

But;

Never I’ve been on the long end of the stick,

I’ve always been the one who lends an ear, hears their heart out, their secrets that will stay with me until the end of me;

And that doesn’t mean that I haven’t had my share of love;

I’ve had support of my best friends, my cousins and a loved one who I parted ways years ago; due to reasons….;

Let’s not go there, it’s supposed to be a happy scenario that we have to paint here…!

I’ve truly felt loved by someone who stays within this heart even though the distance between us has become too far now;

Their embrace, their way of talking, the whole person they were they were loved;

And when that person went from my life it was a wound that never filled…

(Khair…)

The loved ones can even be your family who look after you,

A brother who works hard to make everything happen in the background,

A mother who prepares meals for you, checks up on your well being when she sees you down,

A sister who always awaits you, waiting to talk to you, is ready for your defense and even fights those who bring dirt to your name,

A father who loves you but can’t express it…!

Maybe you’re surrounded by love,

but,

you only want it if it’s coming from a single person,

And that person isn’t that interested in you…?

A dangerous situation to be in it would be…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

17/01/2026
Gratitude and De-cluttering ideas…!
Where can you reduce clutter in your life?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

A Friday is upon us, all of us are waiting for the work week to be over so we can enjoy the weekend that will give us some break from the cluttered life that we run each and every day…!

I’d like to thank you,

All of you from the bottom of my heart for making my last post one of the most liked post on WordPress;

I know it’s a long way to go but this is the very first time that I had so many people like my post; the last update that I got was at 7:36 Am as I was thinking the concept of this post…!

There are a few principles I work on,

One of them being- “keeping my head down and working in silence” until the results show this world the type of person I’ve become following my routine of working hard while staying absolutely silent about all that’s going to happen in the near future…!

That also means you have to make necessary changes when things don’t seem to work out or you aren’t feeling so much about a specific topic;

But at last, A perspective of the writer remains, that gives the readers a chance to look into the thought process and makes the conclusion they arrived at a concrete one according to them…!

And these words once written, become the absolute truth for us because they came from us with confidence and within a confined space called our mind…!

Enough chatter let’s get back to the prompt of the day…

Where can I reduce clutter in my life…?

“What do you mean by clutter..?” This question comes into my mind…

I mean I set my bed daily, clean my room once a week and try to keep it neat and tidy because once I return from work at 9-9:30 at night I basically have no will left to work or even move my body…!

A room that looks like this is comes to mind when I picture clutter…!

I usually have a routine which I follow to reduce clutter in my life;
- I only buy things when the original one is obsolete and I try to remove it from my presence like if I buy a new phone I try to get rid of the old one by selling it off which chips away some price of the original one…!
- I tell my family to reduce buying things from markets in plastic bags(readily available here in India, despite the ban); because they clutter up a space and aren’t used anywhere anymore…
- We try to eat at least one meal together so we can talk about each other and discuss things that are on our minds decluttering our minds and providing each other some insight into each other’s life in some cases help each other out…!
- I try to go to sleep without having anything playing or watching anything on my tab or phone because it breaks the good sleep cycle that we all need(it doesn’t necessarily happen each day but I’m trying to…)
- I try to minimise the apps that I am on, which makes it easy for me to post and be aware of things that happen and places that I am supposed to upload daily…
- I buy clothes only when needed and I spend money on good quality stuff only, I usually check the quality and the type of fabric that it is and if it will work in the long run…!
- At last I need to control the habit of buying good shoes wherever I see one😓😂
Usually when you remove the thing that you’re buying a replacement for; once you buy a new one— your life would be much less cluttered;

Which doesn’t happen in the Indian household I know…😂

I have a drawer full of wires which I keep on hand in hope that I will use it someday…!

Someday indeed…

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍
16/01/2026
A gracious steed and breaking the monotony in life…!

What is your favorite animal?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

A new day has arrived for all of us, as I’m writing this on a Thursday morning at 7:55 am; I am in a bit of a thought slump myself…!

I call it thought slump because the Lohri festival got my hopes up and the routine has returned to the same usual rhythm once the festive spirit waived off…!

I know we as humans have to find happiness in little things that happen around us,

But;

Not all days are the same happy go jolly, and not each day the things go right or better than what we have planned;

Some days I just go to work, keep my head down, work my tail off and return home around 9 at night…!

Neither are all days are happy ones, nor they are bad;

Some days just happen and when they happen one after another the fine line between them just blurs away;

Making us feels like we are continuously living and doing what we do while trapped in a loop…!

And that thought is scary…!

When it feels like that, I usually break my routine-

I take another route to or from my work, or make a stop at a bakery to get something from my family;

Because without me who do they have…?

And it brings me at ease when I remember that I went there yesterday or the day before and I make sure to check the day on the calendar when I’m trying to break my routine…!

Enough chitter chatter about my sad life, let’s get back to the prompt…!

What would be my favourite animal…?

My favourite animal would be a horse

Look at those ears curving inwards…!

Their beauty which makes them fetch incredible prices and their walk which makes them even more graceful…!

The use of their strength which pulled us from horse drawn carriages to the revolutionised world that we live in..!

They are one of the few loyal companions that we can have we even have instances of our Sikh God Guru Gobind Singh Ji’s horse Neela or Nila(translation of the word Neela means the color blue due to the color of the coat of the horse)

And there are many mentions of their lineage still alive to this day, but the blue color has faded into a grey white…!

The speeds that they attain when they are raced, also their use in the games of polo today in Rajasthan…!

A dream come true it would be to see a polo game in this life…!

There are many instances of them being used in wars too, cavalry warfare was entirely about this, and how they maintained their horses in such conditions that they fought wars on horses and also used guns but they didn’t move one bit during the gunfight…!

Even this day we have horses that are implemented in the Indian army, which give a lot of grace and respect to the strength that is associated with them…!

Their value has grown with the types of cross breeding that gives rise to even more powerful horses…!

I’ve seen the most expensive one go on sale was for 20 crore rupees(approx 2.2 Million USD) the breed were Marwari stallion and the name were Shahbaz(A beautiful looking black stallion) and David(A shiny brown 72” Marwari horse…)…

On top of that they actually guess what sort of a person you are just by looking at you and they let you touch them only if they like you…!

A gorgeous steed indeed…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

15/01/2026