Waakiye

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  • Gratitude and De-cluttering ideas…!

    Gratitude and De-cluttering ideas…!

    Where can you reduce clutter in your life?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

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

    I’d like to thank you,

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

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

    There are a few principles I work on,

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

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

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

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

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

    Where can I reduce clutter in my life…?

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

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

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

    I usually have a routine which I follow to reduce clutter in my life;

    • I only buy things when the original one is obsolete and I try to remove it from my presence like if I buy a new phone I try to get rid of the old one by selling it off which chips away some price of the original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

    Usually when you remove the thing that you’re buying a replacement for; once you buy a new one— your life would be much less cluttered;

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

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

    Someday indeed…

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A gracious steed and breaking the monotony in life…!

    A gracious steed and breaking the monotony in life…!

    What is your favorite animal?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

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

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

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

    But;

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

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

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

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

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

    And that thought is scary…!

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

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

    Because without me who do they have…?

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

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

    What would be my favourite animal…?

    My favourite animal would be a horse

    Look at those ears curving inwards…!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    A gorgeous steed indeed…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Lohri celebrations and ways to communicate…!

    Lohri celebrations and ways to communicate…!

    In what ways do you communicate online?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Yes, a Lohri update is due and I plan on doing that here itself because a lot of it was extended late until 12 am and I usually go to sleep by 11 or 11:30 pm at night…!

    It was a usual work day and I returned home around 9 pm after making a pit stop to buy milk and some other daily household supplies…!

    As soon as I reached home I assembled the bowl in which we put all of the stuff to offer it to the flame that we light earlier…

    These were the main Ingredients that we bought I know there are a lot of varieties and somewhere within the mix are hidden poha(flattened rice) and til(sesame seeds)…

    We bought all of these things above; if I were to explain rewdi it would be a crisp brittle candy made out of sugar or jaggery coated with sesame seeds…!

    After putting it in the bowl we started to prepare the actual bonfire…!

    We took a deep dish in which people mix cement, and turned it into a hack of a bonfire because the place around is surrounded by marble and a few years back it actually broke the bonfire as it got heated up real quick and cooled down as the temperature reached 5 degrees celsius the next morning…

    The base of it is made using a cloth in which was wrapped camphor and we used matches to light it and thankfully the wood that we had were dry as a bone they lit up real quick…!

    A few additional participants this Lohri…!

    Our dog a beagle he was an active participant chewing on the peanuts and popcorn, he really liked rewdi and went to each one is us to have one…!

    A pic when the initial wood caught on fire…!

    And when the wood caught on fire we took seven rounds around it while we put sesame seeds in it;

    We took a handful of it and walked around the fire while putting it in the fire bit by bit until the rounds completed…!

    And as soon as the seven rounds were over we took both handful of the rewdi, popcorn and peanuts and ate some of it and put the rest gradually in the fire…!

    After that we sat around the fire by putting chairs and took the warmth all within us as we snacked on the tri-mix until we were joined by our neighbour and they sat with us and we talked for hours upon hours about life and happening…!

    Yes the litter around is of the tri mix and the flames were roaring more than usual…!
    One of our dogs a beagle who enjoyed the warmth and snacks from the hands that fed him…!
    Another one of our dogs, a street dog that we rescued and took in; looking up at us with those eyes in a hope that they will grant her with some peanuts…!
    I don’t think you can see it but we did put in a few potatoes wrapped in foil; Do let me know if you can find all five of them…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    Which I almost forgot about…!

    In what ways do I communicate online…?

    Well, communication should happen that’s what matters to me we can talk over text, maybe direct message, WhatsApp, telegram, Instagram chat and so much more more…!

    Any way that feels comfortable to the other person is suitable for me;

    I used to chat on discord with people who formed a group after an app that I was regular on shut down…!

    I prefer to discuss all of it on call because of my business nature, but there are some things that happen over text and I respect the other person’s boundaries too…!

    (Because I’ve been on both the sides…!)

    A meaningful conversation happens any-way when we begin to talk;

    The only problem is that I cannot have a conversation to kill time or pass it just because I’m bored or they’re bored…!

    Maybe that is something that I’d have to look for improving in myself,

    But other than that,

    I’m almost all times open to converse even on topics that spark fear…!

    (**An edit before uploading aren’t we having a conversation here too…?)

    What was left after the night…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A festival that we will celebrate this evening and a memorable trip…!

    A festival that we will celebrate this evening and a memorable trip…!

    Think back on your most memorable road trip.

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It’s a Tuesday and the second day of hard-work is upon all of us;

    I’m happy for today because on top of being a Tuesday we are going to celebrate a festival called Lohri today;

    What is Lohri if you might ask…?

    It’s a panjabi festival celebrated to make the end of winter, in a sense as the days start to get longer(I mean the daylight);

    It also marks a new year for all of us, and we honor the staple crops like wheat (which is a basic necessity in all of the Indian households) which is sown at the year end and gratitude is expressed to Mother Nature for letting us plant and in return expect a good yield…!

    What happens during the actual festival is that we purchase peanuts, popcorns, rewdi, laddu(s), gud patti, and many more things the day before or the same day;

    (Well most people don’t purchase it on the same day as the footfall is too much and a lot of time is wasted…)

    And we light a bonfire(well not with butane or any fluids that can help us catch fire easily; but with Kapoor(camphor), because it’s a cultural event that happens…!

    We use dried up woods that we can buy or take out of our stock and arrange them in the form of a pyramid and using matches we start the fire and only use camphor to bring it to full flame…!

    And when that happens we gradually take turns around the fire, usually 7 times while we put the peanuts, popcorns and rewdi in the fire as an offering to the fire G0d and asking for their blessings in our life by keeping us energetic and away from foes all around the year…!

    A lot of chatter happened on the festival today;

    Well, I’m going to make an upload later this evening capturing all that happens during the festival…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    Most memorable road trip

    It was the year 2021,

    And a friend of mine planned a trip up north in the mountains somewhere;

    At the end it was me, my sister, my best friend, my best friend’s friend and one of my cousins;

    We had such a blast there, it was because all of us were naive and it was one of the first road trips that we did;

    We went to Ambala and got a car(with a driver) that drove us to Narkanda, a place that was the most beautiful and that was one of our first trips together and the first time I saw snowfall…!

    It was memorable so much so that we invented a drink which we continue to drink the whole trip and still remember to this day…!

    We took green apple rum, because that is what we found affordable at that time and we took Mountain Dew;

    And we downed drinks after drinks until the bottles were empty, and we also had a bonfire there which gave us warmth from the outside too…!

    A trip that still lives in the back of our minds every time we remember it…!

    I’ll see you again this evening with upload of the festival…!

    To good times

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Snacks and chatter about life happening…!

    Snacks and chatter about life happening…!

    What snack would you eat right now?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Another week is upon us and all of us are hitting the work hard, if you’re reading this while sitting in the cubicle, you have to know your life that exists is outside this box;

    And the work that you are doing maybe it’s moving mails here and there; it’s crucial to someone because it gives you a paycheque weekly or monthly…!

    I know you must be dead tired returning to work but someone has to do what you do right;

    And if not you then who…?

    And,

    Yes we were born with a duty that we are supposed to work to earn our feed and also for those who are dependent on us;

    And I’d like to ask you,

    What is your source of inspiration to keep on working…?

    Maybe it’s to keep on affording things that you already own, maybe you’re saving for a child that is about to bless your life, maybe it’s a push towards parenthood,

    Or maybe it’s a dog or a cat that gives you company and you work for them and you have someone to return home to…!

    A big talk of dependency that happened in the above paragraph and let us not steer away from from the prompt of the day that is-

    A snack that I would eat right now…?

    Now isn’t that convenient…!

    It’s 9:30 in the morning as I’m writing this, and I’m planning to have some right now…!

    And that was postponed because I got a haircut and now I’m sitting at home and it’s 10:10 am…!

    Well I am about to have my morning snack I.e. coffee and one of the brownies that I brought last night from a friend’s cafe…!

    Which I paid in full(even if the business owner is my friend) , remember he’s your friend but business is business, if he voluntarily gives you some discount you don’t deny it, but ask them if giving a discount works for them, only if you’re going to be a repeated customer there…

    Always pay your friend in full, and if possible buy something extra because it eventually goes to helping your friend…!

    Yup this morning’s coffee and brownie that I’m having as I’m going to write and edit all of this…!

    Well, if you’d ask me this during afternoon it would be a sub from a cafe that’s near my workplace during a workday…!

    And at night the same would transform into something that I’d for sure have in my drawer that would be some pre packed roasted nuts maybe cashew or almonds or a tong gardens party snack mixture…!

    There is always some time that can be made for snacks,

    Can’t it…?

    Also I went to watch a theatrical performance about a show called Lihaaf, it’s review and a few pictures are attached in the post that will have its link right below 👇

    Theatrical representation of Lihaaf….
    Do give it a read if you have some time on your hand…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Theatrical representation of Lihaaf….

    Theatrical representation of Lihaaf….

    After not being able to get to the venue twice, I finally got a chance to witness the theatrical performance of a story that I heard oh so many times through audiobooks-

    A play that was presented by Tamasha on stage group…!

    I couldn’t leave work early but I had to get my phone repaired from CP(Connaught place, Delhiites will understand…);

    For those who don’t know it’s a business hub within Delhi, and it’s wrapped around by roads that lead to various places;

    Another way to see it would be that all of the places lead here…🙈

    After getting my phone repaired which I thought would take longer, it didn’t because they didn’t have the part…(Yes it was Oneplus and I left as my time to reach there was coming near…)

    So I drove to the venue guided by Siri,

    I reached the place within a few minutes and parked my scooty and got the receipt for that…

    It was a calm find because I reached approximately 10 minutes after it was supposed to start, but it didn’t;

    So I checked in, got my seat confirmed and sat in the first row;

    Yes I got the frontmost seat and it was easy to find because I booked it months back when none of the seats were even booked…!

    I was a bit preoccupied with one of the other short stories that I was writing and glancing over some other work looking for errors as usual…!

    Until it began….

    Honest to G0d,

    I have seen a few plays but this was by far one of the best theatrical demonstrations of a piece of text that I’ve ever seen;

    The director, Chand Khan she did such an amazing job guiding all of the actors who shined like stars and played their roles beautifully…!

    —

    —

    The play Lihaaf which revolves around an aristocratic woman Begum jaan, who is lonely because she gets neglected by her husband Nawab, who is interested in men/boys…

    She finds solace in the arms of a masseuse Rabbu, that supposedly comes in her life to alleviate her body pain, and the massage leads to another thing until they’re in a bed together…;

    Looked at by others in a shameful way,

    Until the narrator, Begum’s niece sees what was happening, scaring her to her core, an all hell breaks loose when the she is abused by begum during the absense of Rabbu…

    The story doesn’t explicitly confirms the relationship between rabbu and begum or nawab and any other man…!

    An open ending story that gives us the reigns to steer the conclusion according to what we see fit…!

    And until the very end all of it seems like a never ending script either twists and turns;

    Forcing us to keenly listen and hear and draw our conclusions to the end…!

    I’ll attach some images that I captured which really won’t do any justice; but all we can do is try until we become the best at it…!

    Acting here begum jaan in red and rabbu her masseuse in black
    Other two maid(both of did a very good job will tag their names once I have them)
    Nawab and begum jaan
    Another angle of nawab and begum jaan
    Begum jaan and in red an impersonation of her feelings…!
    The director Chand Khan, in black
    Ending scene
    Final scene in monochrome
  • A stranger guiding your life…!

    A stranger guiding your life…!

    Come up with a crazy business idea.

    Hey…!

    It’s a Sunday,

    Let that realisation set in…!

    Yup, the fun is over and it’s the day that you procrastinate that having just the weekend is not enough , we need at-least three days as a weekend,

    No, I don’t mean having 4 working days,

    I mean there should be 8 days in a week, I know it’s a crazy idea but, imagine you logged of at work and went to a pub or planned to hang out with your friends, meeting them over drinks,

    And if you’re sober A better option would be going with them to explore a new restaurant or visiting an art gallery with them…

    You do that on a Friday evening and do all the chores on a Saturday; if you’re not hammered enough (then you can do that on a Sunday…)

    And now, instead of crying that you weren’t able to do anything; you have a whole another day, to do what you actually wanted to do…!

    As I’m typing this, it seems like an outrageous idea for daily workers and those working in hospitality or behind counters because an additional day that they have to work would for sure break their backs…!

    So, for now this seems like an impossible idea but not for long…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    A crazy business idea here

    You know how people are dependent on technology, like you’re reading this on a device, maybe a pc, laptop, tablet or even your phone…!

    And you’re hooked on it for hours upon hours, and no one can get you off it, maybe your parents have already dozed off but you aren’t able to so you get up, leaving your phone and stare at the night sky,

    And there aren’t any stars even the moon like you used to see when you were a little kid, maybe the level of pollution is too high and you don’t have anyone to talk about how you’re feeling…!

    So you call us on our number where a person who will discreetly come within a few minutes, and take you to out for tea or coffee no matter what the time is and they will drive you too…!

    Have tea with you and hear all of your problems and try to find optimum solutions;

    It would not be a subscription based because not all the time you need this sort of support, but that system would be available for long term users…!

    I hope I have cleared most of the people who were here to copy the idea or used ChatGPT to generate their ideas…!

    Additional filter

    It would be complex and crazy at the same time, a person or a guide would take you back in time to your childhood or some time before(this is a critical piece of information…)

    And you’d see the life of your parents before you were born, and how they lived their lives,

    And for an extra charge they’d let you explore your hereditary path, letting you trace your origin back to maybe a 3 or 4 generations(nothing more than that…)

    Anything more than that and it becomes an anomaly that all of the scientists who are looking for a single being that started all of our origin…

    And they are there to give you an experience that you could never ever achieve because after a lot of consideration this idea comes to you that you need to be aware of your lineage…!

    I know it’s a crazy idea for now, but we are not far from the time by that ai explodes exponentially and lets us form technology that can help us achieve this dream in our near future…!

    Well that’s it for a Sunday morning because it’s 7:30 in the morning for me and I started to think about writing this at 6 in the morning…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Are possessions worth your attachment…?

    Are possessions worth your attachment…?

    Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It’s a Saturday and I hope you are waking up a tad bit early and completing all of the work that you planned(not your usual work-work) but some bank work(oh no you can’t do that because it’s a second Saturday…)

    Maybe you have some plans to buy clothes or do laundry today or something that will take a good chunk of your time,

    And you should do it early and be free later,

    Maybe explore a cafe or a new restaurant today late this evening…!

    (I’m out here helping people find new people…)

    Coming back to the prompt

    An item that I was really attached to…

    Let me come clean out, I never was and never will be attached to anything that is of material possession, I don’t know if there’s something in me that permits material possession, but I believe that I was born hardwired not to…

    There was something that I bought with my saved money when I was halfway through my teenage, literally 16 years old;

    I bought a Garmin watch and that thing was like ₹10k…

    But, even for that I got it’s use, because it lasted me at least 5 maybe 6 years…!

    If we see that way it only cost me like ₹2k per year so it was a good investment back then…!

    What happened to it; I’m pretty sure it sits somewhere in my drawer within in my room, once a cherished possession, it becomes misplaced within this room of mine once its life is technically over…!

    Well, I think there is something about material possession that makes me think is wrong to attach yourself to it;

    It had a date that some part of it was supposed to go bad, as soon as it was manufactured by giant corporations(that’s how they are made…!)

    In my case it was the battery and it lost the power to retain its charge and I found myself charging it every other hour, rendering it useless;

    and it went out of stock and company stopped manufacturing its part as it was phased out…!

    But,

    Other than that, nothing has come close to make it attached to my heart…!

    —

    Remember to do your chores early on so you can enjoy your evening later…!

    Maybe take a few pictures of the scene or the general environment, maybe take a few of your pictures too; to remember this day…!

    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 🤍