Tag: storytime

  • Pseudo—camping and joining back work….!

    Have you ever been camping?

    1/05/2026@Waakiye

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

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

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

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

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


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

    but,

    I need to draw a line somewhere,

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

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


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

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

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


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


    Coming back to the prompt

    Camping and my views on it

    Let me be honest;

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

    like,

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

    But—

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


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

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


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

    Well,

    pseudo—camping to be honest

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

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


    Let me bring your attention to

    Pseudo—camping

    because that is what we did,

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

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

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

    But,

    we did feel like we did camping…!

    (or maybe in an essence…)


    To camping—

    A pseudo one if you may;

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Two encounters that brought my hopes up…!

    Two encounters that brought my hopes up…!

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

    18/04/2026@Waakiye

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It was a tough day at work yesterday,

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

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


    Other than that,

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

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

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

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


    Coming back to the prompt

    A random encounter that stuck positively…!

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

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

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

    Also called dev Prakash Shashtri marg…!

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

    Coincidentally no one was home and I was all alone,

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

    So a Stranger,

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

    On telling him about the belt,

    he agreed to push me to the nearest mechanic;

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

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

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

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

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


    Another one would be a complete stranger,

    Asking me about my well being,

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

    So he asked about me,

    Where was I from and such things,

    and if I was well…!


    On giving limited answers and not revealing much about myself,

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

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

    It’s the truth,

    and we have to accept it,

    and many other things…!

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

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

    and I was living without a purpose;

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

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


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

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


    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

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

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

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

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A slow morning and I skipped my morning routine today,

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

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


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

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

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

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

    And,

    A QR code was brought my way,

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


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

    like that was possible now…!?

    😢


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

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

    their first book and I’ve loved it…

    And,

    as soon as I’m done with it,

    I’ll leave a review…!


    Coming back to the prompt

    A decision made in the past that helped me grow

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

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

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

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

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

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

    and I hope I did that well..!


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

    But,

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

    Miss you dad forever ♾️


    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • From Chawri bazaar to our minds :Aspects that make us unique…

    From Chawri bazaar to our minds :Aspects that make us unique…

    Which aspects do you think makes a person unique?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    This day started early as I think I fell asleep at 10 last night…!

    I’m writing this at 7:10 in the morning…


    I spent entirety of the day outside,

    After waking up and making a post yesterday morning bere,

    I freshened up and went to my workplace to give a bundle of material to hardening,

    And before returning home I made my first trip to buy essentials like ghee and at home I had brunch…!


    After that I went out to buy munchies and other kitchen essentials from Dmart near our residence…


    On returning home and taking another shower, it was three by now…!

    I got ready and went to Chawri bazaar for getting the card made;

    We walked to metro and reached Chawri bazaar within 20 minutes…!

    The wait on the yellow line was oh so much…!


    And after walking another 10 minutes because we got off on the wrong exit we reached this shop that was in such a secluded spot I thought we were going to get lost there…!

    A street leading to another smaller one and another one leading to another…!

    After giving them the format that we wanted,

    We waited and waited..!

    After getting no answer because the person who had to type wasn’t free;

    We decided that we will send them the pdf on our own and decided to return back home…!


    On our way back we decided to stop for pista badam milk which is famous in old Delhi;

    The name of the shop is

    Sudarshan Refreshment Centre…

    They also sell Kachori

    The small compartment that has kachori above and sabzi in the box below…!

    And on returning from the shop,

    I stopped by the Shri Gujrat Namkeen Bhadaar…!

    And bought some kaju both with pepper and plain salted…!

    Along with some thepla and fafda

    The fafda in question 😂
    Side view of the shop…!

    Before coming back home,

    We decided to buy some burgers for people back home from jumbo king burgers at Rajiv chowk…!

    And after waiting for it to get ready and sipping on our sprite;

    My sister and I talked about things like her suits and dresses,

    And on taking the burgers,

    We walked to the blue lines that led to our station and we got on the metro…!


    We decided to check out a Salon to get a basic idea of the rates of bridal makeup and they gave us a slip of 20k for bridal and additional 3k for each person that wanted to get their’s done…!

    And we came out of the salon with a laughter on our face thinking it would be in the range of 10 maybe 15k range..!

    So we will look for some more…!

    What a day it was…!!!!


    Coming back to the prompt…!

    Aspects that make us unique…

    If I’m asked this question,

    I’d answer this by saying that,

    the thought process

    and

    the behaviour

    That guides us to arrive at a conclusion works to make us unique…!


    If you have a corrupted thought process,

    Everything goes down from that place,

    Because it forces you to pick negative and bad thoughts more and after a point of time you feel forced to act upon them…!

    And when that happens the behaviour reflects what goes on in the mind,

    To all of the world…!


    On the contrary,

    If you have a better managed thought process,

    A balance of both leaning towards good side more;

    It reflects in the behavior and the people outside can see it too…!


    My answer would be a correct mindset with a positive thinking process,

    Along with that a behavior that reflects the same…!


    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 🤍

  • 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 🤍

  • 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 🤍

  • 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 🤍

  • 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 🤍