Waakiye

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  • Real life problems here in India…!?

    Real life problems here in India…!?

    Another day of already answered prompts telling me to go into my partially written saved posts…!

    For those who don’t believe here’s the proof that I can provide you…!

    A screenshot with all the prompts answered…!

    If you stay with me, you will be safe…!

    These are the exact words that left his mouth when I told him that I didn’t want to go with him…!

    Set aback I was, before I could say anything as his words once again filled the room…!

    “There are many who are ill mannered who will tease you, belittle you, call you names, maybe touch you inappropriately and what will you do then…?

    Who will you call out to…?

    Who will you look back to for help…?

    Will you cry out for help…?”

    Don’t you think it will be a terrifying experience…?

    And you won’t be able to move or even make a cry of help when something bad happens…!

    You don’t even call it out when you’re surrounded by people you call your own, because you think they’d think of you in the wrong way…!

    And you think you can go alone safely there without me…?

    His words cut deep,

    But they were true, I should have left early and made all of the necessary arrangements before I planned to travel there, even if it were to travel all alone…!

    I know this seems weird, A lot of dependence on a person, But what if I told you it was the absolute truth for me…?

    Last week another girl just like me was picked up by goons as she was going back home from school and she was assaulted and later left on the side of the road(literally to die);

    Until a passer-by recognized her and shouted to attract more people;

    The already distressed parents ran as they weren’t able to lodge a FIR,

    Denied were their basic rights just because the presiding officer assumed that she must have ran away from home due to some tension or stress from her parents…!

    They also brought them shame by telling them to their face and all those around them that,

    She must have ran away from them with her boyfriend and they must have planned to marry each other…!

    As soon as they reached along with other police officers after an already pre decided sum was received by them in a form of bribe and they were looking to pay a part of it to the family to settle the matter;

    They said girl was still alive and confessed the name of the people that were in that car because they belonged to the same town;

    And they loaded her up in their police van instead of an ambulance and drove off towards the hospital…!

    The parents of the girl stood there and after a while they shook themselves to consciousness and found what had happened…!

    They paddled their way to the hospital but their daughter was declared brought dead;

    The parents also died as soon as they heard the news…!

    As the hospital staff decided to change her to remove all of the blood soaked clothes,

    They began the investigation and found conclusive evidence that it was infact a sexual assault and this would;

    Should be a criminal activity;

    But those so called enforcers of justice came empty handed when she was laden into the police jeep and gave up on the drive towards the hospital,

    Or,

    She was deliberately killed on the way to not get a witness testimony…!

    The words still ringing in my mind,

    If you stay with me, you will be safe..!

    Would I ever be safe, until this mentality stays that I need someone to feel safe

    And when I am alone I will—

    I should feel unsafe…

    Only when there’s someone around me I’ll feel safe…!

    Isn’t this mentality broken enough to push women back into the place they worked so hard to crawl out of…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Already answered prompts and the Time Quickening…!

    Already answered prompts and the Time Quickening…!

    Another already answered prompt forcing me to pick one of the things from my drafts…!

    Do you feel the time speeding up too…?

    I’d like to call this concept,

    The “Quickening”

    Let me check if this is real word or not;

    (Yes it is a real word, but it just means that the first motion that a foetus in the uterus makes, nothing else than that…)

    Do you feel that the world is moving quicker than it was before?

    Or

    The passage of time has blemished, and in the matter of the few moments maybe hours pass away…

    Maybe when you’re watching reels or doing something that you love; the time feels like it going by real fast…!

    I’ve met people who believe that the year 2020 and 2021 didn’t happen(maybe be of corona virus and it’s spread);

    But, even if we were away from work or detached in the form that doesn’t make any sense…!

    Some believe they are getting older at a pace that they can’t believe is true…!

    One of those is my friend who says nothing seems fun anymore, the lifestyle is the same and things have gotten expensive exponentially and the magic that we had in our childhood is long gone…!

    He told to me something I didn’t recognise until it was too late for me,

    Maybe you didn’t too;

    But the clouds were blue and peaceful,

    And the sunlight was bright and yellow;

    The moon was merciful, and it brought me peace earlier….;

    Now the clouds are grey, the sun is white, and the moon signifies longing more than the eternal peace…!

    He once told me that he’s afraid of dying,

    But death, that’s enticing because it means a sweet release;

    And when I tried to correct him by saying that both of them are same;

    He said that death as an achievement would be a sweet release,

    But the actual process of dying like being dependent on someone to take care of you or fighting an illness until the very end-—

    Where you become miserable and dependent on those who are around you and they too become tired of you after a while…;

    That’s why the process of dying is scary,

    But death seems a sweet embrace…

    And when our conversation came to an end, and I drove back home,

    I realised what he meant by that,

    The instant release from all the mess makes it very appealing,

    But the consequence of not crossing the bridge instantly means that someone becomes your caretaker,

    And when that happens and you see and feel yourself that you have become miserable,

    That feeling can’t be shaken off…!

    A thought called Time Quickening…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A dream born out of stress and failure…!

    A dream born out of stress and failure…!

    An already answered prompt gave me a choice to choose one of my write ups—

    27 was a dream,

    It was something I thought I couldn’t ever achieve;

    It all began as I reached 25…!

    Everyone I liked,

    Everyone I loved,

    Parted,

    Walked away,

    In their respective fields and in their spaces…!

    Leaving this nobody,

    This no name person all alone;

    All the years spent talking to myself,

    I heard that it was only till age 25 and after that the pain was all over

    It has been two years since that,

    Two years of trying to be a person that I dreamt to be once,

    To be a person who would be loved by someone,

    Who’s life lessons would help someone in some way,

    Just a person and his dream…!

    Until that person’s dreams were cut short,

    A refusal to let them continue their dreams—

    The process of altering themselves to fit into a space followed,

    Which broke them from their very core…!

    Until things could be brought to track,

    The one who denied all the things left for the holy abode,

    Admitting their wrongdoings on their deathbed,

    But what good were those words which broke me from within and all those dream that I had for myself…!

    From that point,

    It is a constant source of stress and pains that stay with me,

    And I couldn’t dream of anything beyond getting home and shutting down my eyes to drift away from the pain…!

    And it was all that from the past two and a half year,

    But not from now onwards—

    I’ve given you the reason I thought my life was meaningless,

    Without a purpose;

    So I made a purpose,

    To bring you a world,

    World beyond your vision…!

    That’s who waakiye is…!

    Thanks for being here and liking the post and commenting,

    Coming back with more power than before…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Chipped fragments of patriotism…!

    Chipped fragments of patriotism…!

    Are you patriotic? What does being patriotic mean to you?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Another day that I woke up at 2:30 and wrote something in my notes app and fall asleep yet again at 4:45; waking up again with my alarm at 8 am in the morning…!

    I hope to live on this routine…!

    Because the time around 2:30 to 3:30 are becoming the most optimum time for me to write and think because I’m all alone at that point of time and no one distracts my thinking or my thought of process…!

    I’ll add at the end what I wrote this morning…

    Coming back to the prompt

    Patriotism and its meaning to me

    First of all, the patriotism is on an all time low because of the way this country is being handled;

    The way the so called elected officials are weaponising the religious beliefs of a said community to spew even more hatred towards each other, causing conflict within them each and every single day and making it their main goal of their election campaign…

    Do let me know,

    Have you ever heard someone say in India ever before—

    “हमारा धर्म खतरे में है…!”

    (Our religion is at risk…!)

    We’ve never heard that in our lifetime ever before and we won’t hear this ever again once this party loses all of its grip and goes away for good…!

    Well,

    A country where acts of terrorisms happen and the lost lives are used as a weapon of getting votes, the people here are either clueless or don’t care about the direction they’re taken in…!

    The deals accepted by our said prime minister to accept USA and Venezuelan oil at prices higher than their counterparts and then welcoming him like he was involved in negating world war 3 shows the hypocrisy of the whole government and its constituents…!

    And working on a law that any army retired personnel cannot release a biography or a book until 20 years of retirement challenges all of the basic ideas that define the crooked state and the mishandling of our resources…!

    And today’s prompt asks us for patriotism,

    You cannot revive something that is taken away from our eyes and being chipped away each day and only fragments are being seen by us every passing day until there will be none…!

    A vision into patriotism for our country,

    India 🇮🇳

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Deteriorating state of our country and waking up at odd hours…

    Deteriorating state of our country and waking up at odd hours…

    Have you ever unintentionally broken the law?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A warmer morning this one is and I woke up at 2 in the morning with cold sweats, and turned on the fan, doom-scrolled for a while, turned on my tab and watched a few episodes of Daria and went back to sleep around 4:30 and woke up yet again as my alarm rang at 8 in the morning,

    And I’ve felt more refreshed than ever;

    Maybe this intermittent sleep schedule is the way to get more of my creativity out,

    Because I remember writing something about close friends who ditch on me at the moment I need them, but I have stood up for them various times even at odd hours…

    Maybe this realisation was very much needed to distance myself from such people in my life and this realisation couldn’t have come at the right time as may a people I considered close missed an important date in my life;

    Instead of two who reached out to me;

    (Khair…)

    Coming back to the prompt

    Unintentionally breaking the law

    What are we talking about here tbh…!

    I’m making this post from Delhi, India where the people don’t see the red lights before crossing—

    The assaults on women are on an all time high-

    There are more than 50 people including men, women and children going missing who can’t be traced even by the police each and every single day—

    Rules are broken left and right and today due to mahashivratri;

    Truck full of people and their dj sets will blare music all throughout the day wherever they go and cause noise pollution throughout the day-

    Can you ever tell such people that the faith exists within their bodies and doing a pomp and show disrupts other communities too,

    But if that is said it would cause more harm than good—

    Each day there are numerous cases registered and some are cleared just through under the table deals or by paying off the victim or their surviving family—

    A lawless state we live in here,

    Let me not tell you about speeding or illegally cutting of the lanes that these blinkit drivers and e rickshaw drivers make 🫩

    And even I’m not someone who is pure amongst the people who are covered in grime-

    I’ve paid my way out of problems too, that were caused by breaking rules like speeding, or other illegal activities(let’s stop it here)

    Because that’s the easiest way to get away from any problem when you can pay someone and they make it disappear…!

    Money works wonders even in overcoming the hurdles in bureaucratic procedures and makes our lives easier instead of letting our files sit and collect dust in government offices…!

    Because this is India…!

    (मेरा देश बदल रहा है…)

    (My country is changing)

    And becoming an even more greedy, selfish and corrupt one just because we have normalised this sort of thinking and they don’t work unless they are fed their rates…!

    A deep dive into our state of operations to the world…

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A destiny made through these words…

    A destiny made through these words…

    If there were a biography about you, what would the title be?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    I woke up this day with some lightheadedness, and stuffy nose, I knew this was coming because as soon as seasons change, I get sick no matter how much i take care of myself, no matter if i drink cold or hot;

    Just this once when February crosses into march, I will get the same type of sickness every year, it also happens when fall mixes into winter…

    I think I’ll watch another day and if the conditions don’t improve, I’ll pay a visit to the nearby doctor…!

    Coming to the prompt

    Title of my biography

    Well, these words have come into my life as my saviour because they were with me even when I was all alone,

    And

    On finding no one to talk about the waves of emotions that I once found within myself, I took it to pen and paper and the story continues ever since and each day I find something new,

    Maybe a new way to view this world or a new perspective in which I can place myself in someone’s shoes and imagine the world through their eyes…!

    And because these words made me who I am,

    I’d title it—

    “A destiny made through these words”

    To a new vision that waits for me…

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Turmeric milk for immunity and a vision of the past…

    Turmeric milk for immunity and a vision of the past…

    What were your parents doing at your age?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A warm morning it is because somewhere during the night I turned the fan on full because I was sweating through my t shirt last night…!

    So I slept with the fan on full with a blanket covering me up…

    But this morning as soon as I opened my window a cool breeze brought me chill, and I have been occasionally sneezing all throughout the day yesterday…!

    Maybe I’ll drink some turmeric milk this week or the coming week to get some immunity in…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    What were our parents doing at our current age…?!

    Well in my case my mom and dad had just been married-

    It has only been a year of their marriage and they were finding each other’s quirks and habits out…!

    And when they got to my age, A year later— they tried to conceive me and my sister , but a lot of the time they weren’t able to conceive…!

    This year and a few following them were very depressive for them because all of their efforts went down in vain and any chance of conception they thought they had was going away from them as every month came and went…!

    She really was depressed and the entire joint family was facing the raft of it because in the home if there are failure in conception and a few miscarriages the life becomes miserable and unliveable…!

    Those were some extremely hard times that my mom and dad both of them pulled though;

    And I thank them for having me and the type of blessing we(my sister and I) were and are to her— And a proof of our father still guiding us from the world beyond this one…!

    May his soul get eternal peace…! 🕊️

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Swift action against the perpetrators and the disrupted water flow…!

    Swift action against the perpetrators and the disrupted water flow…!

    If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A good morning from me to all of you…!

    As I got something I wanted from a long time, a seiko watch that was delivered to me yesterday evening…!

    I know it’s an older version but I wanted to own one which had a white dial and now my collection has one more watch…!

    It might not feel like much to anyone looking from outside but a seiko watch like this was something that I wanted…!

    Maybe I’ll do a post about all of the watches I own someday…!

    (It goes into the idea basket of mine…)

    It was a bit problematic morning as we had a water shortage, the tanks that we keep on the terrace were already half empty because of the use and without having anything to check or any update from the Delhi Jal board(Djb) [The governing water body of the city];

    They have been disrupting the flow of water more and more as time goes on..!

    Under the context of cleaning the water plants and sometimes the excess amounts of pollutants in the water…!

    I know they are doing their job and providing us with clean water but this was never the case earlier and even if something like this were to happen we were made aware a few days in advance…!

    ( उन अच्छे दिनों के उम्मीद…)

    (Still waiting for those good days we were promised)

    Coming back to the prompt

    Change one law and the reasons behind it…!

    Have you ever thought that a person who takes the life and dignity of someone without even a single ounce of fear and a sense of humanity in them…!

    It is something that has been so much prevalent in these days that the news has become a common thing and we scan past them like it’s a common occurring…!

    Same can be said about the human lives that are lost due to poor or improper constructions that happen due to cost cutting and when heavy infrastructure come down crashing and takes the lives of several people within a span of few seconds;

    There should be some action taken against such people and it should happen before the pyres of the of the now deceased person are put to flames…!

    In the first case, the person who was the perpetrator/s should be charged to death, because taking a life should have the same impact on yours even if it was done under the influence;

    An accident or a mishap should be viewed from that view too, the company that picked the tender should be held responsible and accountable for the accident that happened if the fault was found in the quality of the material or if the quantity of the safety measures were skipped…!

    Not a single life lost should go in vain, because this life is precious and losing it has a ripple effect on those around them…!

    In crux

    A swift and effective approach is needed to bring justice to the victims and bringing the perpetrators in the vision of the law system to punish them accordingly…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • An ideal day and some exciting news…!

    An ideal day and some exciting news…!

    Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end.

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Another cool morning its said to be 10 degree Celsius; waking up at 7:14 with an alarm that I set for 7 AM made me realise I felt colder than it should…!

    As I went to use the bathroom and brush my teeth after putting my phones on charging;

    I thought about today’s prompt, what it would be and how would I write all about it…!

    And on seeing this prompt at 7:33 it felt like it’s been ages since I’ve lived one of the ideal days…!

    (Khair)

    There’s something I want to share with you, my sister’s friend bought a new car and she came to our home last night to show us the car and we were overjoyed when we saw her car and I quickly ordered a few chocolates as a gift from blink-it it was a Ferrero Rocher and a Cadbury one; I ordered a air freshner for her car too but that guy couldn’t reach me because his two wheeler’s engine seized like 10 minutes away from me so he made me cancel the order…!

    It is a Kia Sonet and it’s white in color…!

    We are more happy for her because she grew up infront of us and now she’s become a person who practices law under a senior lawyer and works hard to make everyone around her happy…!

    A noble soul she is…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    An ideal day for me

    It would be to wake up well rested at 7 am…!

    And after waking up it would be great to get a nice walk or a workout in that lasts maybe forty five minutes to an hour that keeps me energetic throughout the day…!

    Then it would be writing one of these prompts which takes around an hour and a half at max and then it would be great to go to work and everything happens according to a predicted schedule and all the outcomes that were thought were reached and the work day ended at 5 maybe 5:30 or last 6 in the evening nothing more than that…!

    After reaching home some plans were already made and I reached there on time and me and my friends hung out, got some snacks and then reached home safely…!

    At home I had my mom and my sister waiting for me and I had a good dinner with them, maybe outside maybe at home and then we took a walk outside and then hit the bed…!

    A day well spent it would’ve been to acknowledge all those who made me who I am today and their constant unwavering support which pushed me into the direction which i love today…!

    An ideal day it would be…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Three major life events and a morning walk partner…!

    Three major life events and a morning walk partner…!

    How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A cool Wednesday morning it is and I woke up by the air purifier hitting my face with cold air that it blew at my face, the time was 7:56 as that’s the time I saw on my phone and watching the 71% battery on it made me breathe a sigh of relief…!

    And I went for a morning walk with my dog and it was amazing;

    There are so many things that we see, giving us perspective on life too, as we see people from walks of life, making it an interesting thing to observe too…!

    And, now I have to clean my room as I’ve returned home at 8:58 hours…!

    But,

    The morning walks makes it better as a fresh perspective is taken in the morning and it helps me think about things in a different way than what I usually am sitting within these four walls…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    Life events and its influence on our lives

    This topic came on the right time,

    As many things are happening around me as life unfolds infront of me…

    A marriage

    It usually looks like two people getting together just to live together and have a kid in the near future but that’s the perspective from the outside;

    But, when looked at from the vision of the couple- the man, the woman or whoever is your significant other is—

    It gives you a whole different perspective as they aren’t just tying knots, they are marrying each other and it involves understanding the nature and the quirks that your partner has and adapting to things they don’t like and providing them with love and care that they need…!

    Well this isn’t understood by someone who isn’t married or doesn’t plan to get married anytime soon and it’s their choice…!

    You get to understand a person in real time and unfurl them in a way that gives you understanding who they are and why is it the way they are…!

    People just call it marriage and that’s what their mind lacks to think and believe…!

    Childbirth

    One of the most crucial thing- that welcomes parenthood and shapes you in a way when the peaceful nights turn sleepless as the newly born child needs attention and your support…

    It’s very tricky in the first place as not all of the conceptions end up in having a child and there are many helpless parents that are working hard to have a child of their own; and when things don’t work out adoption becomes an option…!

    And this continuous tries to have one of your own pulls the love out of intimacy..!

    Yes you might not have heard that but tracking your ovulation days and being ready on a specific day/(s) kills the spontaneity and turns it stressful and a task that requires accomplishment instead of being fun and full of joy…!

    (If you know this I’m sorry for you and I hope you have a child of your own someday…!)

    And viewing this from the outside it feels like something you can’t care about,

    But when you are in the shoes of such a person you come to know the real meaning of having a child and when you’re blessed with one, it feels like the almighty rewarded you with something of a miracle themselves..!

    Death

    Yes, one of the things that makes us who we are and prepare us for the world beyond this one, the sweet embrace of death,

    Something that all of us have in common that we have to taste it once and we will never know when it will be our turn, but the fact that this is the common thing that all of us share and have kept on sharing and will do until our end…!

    It breaks a person if it’s close to you, your S/o, your father ,mother, brother or sister…!

    It hurts to a such a degree that sometimes the pain and suffering becomes unbearable and the person takes their own life as it becomes unbearable to live a life without them…!

    I’ve seen people do that and leave behind kids that were underage, some were working;

    It wasn’t something of a Sui(ide but the loss becomes unimaginable and the person gives up on living their lives and then something happens; their car swerved out of control, they fell and the blood loss was too much—

    “They cherished each other so much that they couldn’t live without each other” that’s what they say after it happens;

    But, the love that they had for each other couldn’t be shaken or taken apart…!

    (Khair)

    The life and its perspectives haunt us and make us think about who we are and what we live for;

    It might feel like it was a long read but it was necessary and worthy of each word as anytime any one of the above happens it becomes a life altering experience and changes us and our core…!

    Cheers 🥂(to a long read and a new perspective)

    Love Waakiye 🤍