Waakiye

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  • 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 🤍

  • Different perspectives and goals that affect us…!

    Different perspectives and goals that affect us…!

    What could you do differently?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    First thing it’s scary that it’s only Wednesday today when this could have already been a Thursday for me,

    And we are already first week into the new year as we speak…!

    Another lie that I cannot seem to believe at all…!

    Well I’ve felt that time flies past quickly these days; but I’ve never ever felt such haste…

    Coming to the prompt because thinking that makes me go crazy…!

    What could I do differently…?

    Another one of those broad questions of you ask me,

    I mean what i could to differently in life, at work, at relationships or what; the horizon is so broad…!

    Well for beginning,

    I want to be up early and stay awake for the some time and complete work that I’ve taken upon myself (writing short stories and some skits…)

    Second would be to have enough energy left to join a gym after work because that is something I want to involve myself in…

    Third would be to be more active and great at conversation and keeping up either my friendships and relationships that I have with people (both in and outside of work…)

    The last would be to be a better person than who I am right now, because there is suffering that I see around me, but I’m not that loaded that I can help everyone that I see;

    So I just want to be in a better place so that I can help those around me, well if not strangers I’d be happy to help those who are a part of my family by helping them get up on their feet and give them a much needed boost that will pull them out of their slow and stagnant life…(only if they need my help…)

    There are many things that can be done differently, much of it depends on the perspective of self and those who is affected by the change isn’t it…?

    Well to a better future shall we tread…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A billboard promoting mental health…!

    A billboard promoting mental health…!

    If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say?

    Hey…!

    I hope all of you are doing well …!

    There’s something that I want to try,

    I don’t know what time zone all of you are in but, my last post which I made by sheer accident late at night got many likes and views,

    So I’m trying something that makes absolutely no sense right now, but nothing hurts if it gives the content that I write a boost…!

    Well,

    When it will be uploaded,

    Most of my day would be already over,

    And I’d be home probably trying to have dinner or already in my bed that I cleaned this morning trying to sleep…!

    Coming back to the prompt,

    A freeway billboard(first time I’m hearing this because there are no such things here in India…)

    But I guess it would be either promoting my business or this writing work that I do;

    I know there are many billboards that also play videos;

    Maybe I could make an advert to promote safe driving by making an ad that tells to not drink and drive;

    Or,

    Another one would be to be on a proper sleep before driving because that causes a lot of accidents ;

    It wouldn’t truly be mine without having something in writing that separates my content from others;

    So it would be catchy;

    Like-

    One of my Instagram posts

    Like this one (⬇️)

    And this would be in an auto shuffle if it’s a working billboard or it would be collapsed into a single one when it is needed…!

    I know it wouldn’t be an immediate hit,

    But it would linger enough to make people search it,

    Maybe click on the link and watch the whole post…!

    That’s exactly how I feel…!

    With that being said it would be a great thing to see and look at,

    And I’d click my photo standing under it too,

    And it’s going to make people around me proud too…!

    A whole billboard belonging to me,

    I’d call it a dream come true…!

    Until next time…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • In a Loud World, Find Someone Who Listens

    In a Loud World, Find Someone Who Listens

    What is the greatest gift someone could give you?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It’s another Sunday and I hope you went to bed sooner than you expected;

    You won’t believe the response that I got from people they believed that it would be better to just stay in, spend some time with their family or stay indoors maybe with a friend after grabbing a bottle, sharing it and crashing at their place or letting them crash at your place;

    This was more of a response I got;

    Some were like my parents aren’t home so I will spend the night with my boyfriend/girlfriend and there were a few who decided to go out to drink or have food…!

    A wild change has been brought by the year 2026 into the lives of people that live around us;

    Maybe a change was indeed needed, to be self introspective and knowing who is right and who to keep alongside you and people are doing that this year;

    Filtering and cutting their circle to a few good people instead of a bunch of people who show up just because they get a free treat out of you…!

    Coming back to the prompt;

    What would be the greatest gift someone could ever give me…?

    For me it would be their Trust and Genuine presence;

    Imagine knowing someone and you fully trust them with your secrets, your life and anything that goes on in it;

    And when something goes wrong they show up to put you in your arms and gently bring you from a scary place back into this world;

    I really have to thank the almighty for putting someone like that in my life;

    They have been a sort of pillar in my life that I can take support of when nothing else is going right and they also guide me when nothing is going right in my life;

    One of the most important things;

    They become a place where I can freely say out things without being judged and they let me know when I’m in the right headspace or not;

    And they always listen to me keenly whenever or whatever I have to speak about;

    The last part is extremely important;

    And there aren’t many who just listen to you, because this is a fast paced world and everyone has their priorities,

    But can you imagine having someone like that…!

    I’m extremely blessed…!

    Also this goes both ways,

    If you want to be with a person who has all of this qualities, you will have to be one such person beforehand;

    By being someone like that before you will find yourself in a place where you will help people out too by hearing them and providing them with comfort and then you will find yourself in a place where you are surrounded by many such people who are like that…!

    With that being said,

    Their trust and genuine presence in your life would be the optimum answer for this prompt…!

    Take it slowly it’s a Sunday morning, I know you are going to wake up late and then contemplate your day maybe your life later;

    But,

    Find someone to talk to, a genuine connection;

    The comments box are free here…! 😁

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye

  • A dream that didn’t come true…!

    A dream that didn’t come true…!

    What colleges have you attended?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Whew, the weekend is upon us finally and I hope all of you are now ready to finally let loose because what a week it was,

    I remember celebrating new year then going back to work in the morning 😭😔;

    But not today;

    All of the work can be done on Monday and all the enjoyment happens today and some tomorrow(I.e. a Sunday)

    Coming back to the prompt,

    What colleges have I attended;

    I’m letting you know this once,

    I actually missed all of the college life because of some financial issues that we coincidentally got when I was supposed to be a part of the college and pursue my dreams;

    It was back in 2017 and I was supposed to take admission in the college of my choice;

    But it was outright refused by my father as he laid the facts in-front of me, it was very shocking and devastatingly cruel thing that happened to me, because entirety of my dream came to a collapse;

    So I had to pursue another course from an open university,(Du SOL)

    All of the material was available to pick from their office and I spent my whole three years going back and forth once to the place and the rest of the time I spent my time preparing from home;

    Later I was pushed into joining the family business which wasn’t a part of my curriculum at all and that led to technically destroying whatever I learnt from the place because I started the work from the grime and learnt as I went upwards;

    Well that sad story is supposed to be told another day;

    I wish all of you readers a very happy new year and I hope your dreams come true this year;

    Try to reflect on life sometimes, see how your child or your partner or even a stranger would react once they come to know your actions and story from someone else…!

    Would they be happy or sad or outright refuse to play your part;

    This becomes a very powerful reminder to amend or change your ways…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍