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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 🤍

19/02/2026
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 🤍

18/02/2026
The problems with the budgeting system and a need to be saved…!

Write about your approach to budgeting.

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well..!

The same routine followed today waking up at 2:30 and going back to sleep around 4:30;

But today something different happened, I didn’t write much but I was able to relive the previous day, the entirety of it within a span of 20 minutes, as I tracked my moments, all of the places that I went yesterday—

All the people who I met and all the payments that I made—

Everything in its entirety I was able to remember like a movie played right in-front of my eyes…!

This is something new and something I haven’t done before in a long time…!

But after doing that,

I wrote something that even I feel worried about…!

I titled it “Save me…”

You’ll find it at the end;

Coming back to the prompt

My approach towards budgeting

I do believe in budgets but at the same time I find them very much constricting and something that I often fight with towards the end of my month…!

Well a chunk of my pay goes into household expenses and the meagre left with me almost covers my monthly expenses…!

I’m not happy with the place I’m in right now, but not having a father figure in my life brings all of the responsibilities on my shoulders;

So I have to be available to those who may are in need like my immediate family, and when I pull back(I often do…)

It’s said that it’s not like what your father would have done—

And when that words ring in my ears, it feels like those people were in a habit of mooching off my father and there’s a place where I draw the line…

I’ve told the remaining members in my family that anything related to money(like giving it to someone else…) shouldn’t happen no matter the circumstances…!

Because we have been the leverage people take and then forget that we helped them in any way…!

A brief walk through my family’s broken history…!

(Khair…)

A budget happens, money moves into savings, the remaining money moves like water to cover expenses and some times some money is grabbed from my savings…!

The basic crux of my life these days—

Until some sort of stability comes in which don’t know when, but a hope still exists within this little mind of mine…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

No I didn’t forget what I wrote this morning…

And here it goes—

Save me

Save me,

Save me from this torment that exists around me,

Save me from the will of this world that surrounds me,

Save me…!

Save me from the person that lives within,

Save me from the voice that speaks on its own,

Save me from the voice that tells me to commit these atrocious acts;

Save me from the vengeance that roams in my mind,

Save me from the realisation of those acts I commit under the guidance of the voice,

Save me from the temptations that my eyes come across each time I look at a screen or a person living and breathing,

Save me from the person I become when I see someone helpless and can’t stop until I take advantage of their helplessness;

Save me from the acts they did under the pressure to be free from the things that bound them,

Save me from seeing them once again,

Save me from doing something irreversible to them,

Save me from taking their lives after doing what I did to them,

Save me from the fact that I woke up comfortably the next day,

Save me from the fact that I don’t remember who came to me to take their lifeless bodies away each night;

Save me from reliving the next day again,

Save me from myself—

Yet again;

Save me….

~fin~

17/02/2026
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 🤍

16/02/2026
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 🤍

15/02/2026
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 🤍

14/02/2026
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 🤍

13/02/2026
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 🤍

12/02/2026
The polluted fresh air and a feasible dream home…!

Write about your dream home.

Hey

I hope all of you are doing well…!

A not so cold morning it is and after cleaning my cabinet and properly putting in my clothes that were sitting on my bed go god knows how long, I will be making a pit stop to drop all of the blankets and other things at the dry cleaners and pick up the remaining stock with them and bring them home before going to work…!

After all of the mess(clothes) that I properly set now I need to deep clean my bed and room,

Maybe use a wet rag to remove all of the layer of dust that has accumulated,

Even though an air purifier runs in the evening and the morning, the so called fresh air that comes in the morning is a must and all the windows and doors should be open…!

Even if the AQI outside reaches 400, we must open the windows and let the so called fresh(polluted air) in and clean that air all day long…!

Dilemma 🫩

Coming back to the prompt

My dream home

I know a lot of you would want a cozy home surrounded by a garden and plants that bear beautiful flowers and fruit and vegetables,

All of the necessities that you need are available nearby, but people don’t understand that all of this dream require constant upkeep; that is something which isn’t clear to many people…!

The upkeep like maintaining plants, keeping and collecting firewood, getting all of the essentials, this is a huge challenge that isn’t thought by many;

On the contrary

A dream home for me would be my old home with all of the necessary services already available, provided that we pay for them each month after their use;

It would be my dream home because a joint family would exist and all those who are no more with us would exist with us too—

I know a lot of dynamics are in play in a joint family and someone always gets the short end of the stick, and I’d like to do away with that…!

A dream home of mine would be a dream home for all those who live within it too—

It wouldn’t be called a dream home if someone were living their life serving others after killing their dreams would it…!?

A thought…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

11/02/2026
A visit to old Delhi and maintaining a constant state of neutrality…!

You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

A Tuesday morning it is and it is warmer than usual because I was feeling sweaty in the blanket and I removed it somewhere along the night, as I woke up it was on the other side of the bed away from me at 7:10 am as I snoozed my first alarm…

Yesterday was a good one, there are many a things that I planned to accomplish like buying a ring for myself, few essential oils and diffusers from our home and in a single sweep I bought some jalebi(a type of funnel cake that is dipped in sugar syrup and served hot…)

I bought it from the shop that is very famous in old Delhi,

By the name of “Old famous jalebi wala…”

This is the shop

And if any one of us gets a chance to go to old Delhi we do buy like half a kilo maybe 750 grams, in three maybe four separate packets because the people around us love it and they request me that whenever I get a chance, I get some from them too, which I always do…!

(They were 700 Rs per kilo when I bought them last evening(09/02/2026)[DD/MM/YYYY], they also have samosa (fried savoury pastry) which are available in potato 🥔 and another one is pea 🫛 filled)

And the evening was perfect as we spent it coming to conclusions about life and plans ahead as we have to get the dates for my sister’s wedding too…!

Which means that I will be under a lot of pressure in the coming days but, it will be easy once the basic things are finalised and then we will be at some ease…!

Coming back to the prompt

First thing I do on receiving fantastic news

Anything I talk about ahead does not mean I’m a negative person, but—

Have you ever heard the paradox of happiness…?

It means when you place a huge chunk of importance on being constantly happy and when those expectations aren’t met; you feel extremely disappointed ultimately which leads to less happiness in your life;

That becomes the opposite of what you’re trying to achieve…

So,

As a person who has some happiness in their life, any amazing news no matter how big it is, it’s taken as something that is at a normal level…!

This isn’t out of spite but this mindset is born out of necessity and survival of myself as a human being because constantly shooting for happiness leads to falling more, so maintaining a net state of neutrality becomes the norm…!

When you stand at the neutral line, it feels easy to come back up once the life hits you with something bad likewise when things are going good it becomes easy to fall back down to the neutral line…

In a crux,

Having a constant neutral state is better than being either happy or sad all the time as either one of them has their own problems associated with each states…!

But let’s not forget that you seem antisocial when you constantly run on this state of neutrality, because it becomes a norm for you but not for others as your smile comes to halt mid talking or your sadness disappears when you come to term with it…!

Making you look like a psychopath…! 😂

Telling you this from the personal experience…!

🥲😅

Either way, this state works for me and I hope it was an interesting read…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

10/02/2026