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Destiny, Fate, Kismet 🔮

Daily writing prompt
Do you believe in fate/destiny?
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Oh yes, I believe in destiny. 𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐄 ᯓ★

☣There are things that we do; there are things that happen to us because of the things we do. That is Karma, the result of our actions.

Then there are things that happen to us but have no bearing on our actions. This I call destiny. 🎲

ᝰ.ᐟ When the unknown overcomes us, it is destiny. ༘⋆ When events we cannot command decide the course of our life, it is destiny.༘⋆

☣ It could be a natural calamity, actions of others, an act of God, a chance happening or national, social, global, current or historical events like wars, epidemics, financial crash or blooming economy. Wars and epidemics have altered many lives in unimaginable ways while we neither have any control over, nor have caused these.

Let’s consider a few examples that come to my mind as I write –

⚛ Someone was studying in Ukraine before the war broke out. They leave studies for safety and don’t know what to do next or are forced to take a second course. I call it fate. Afterall what role did the student have in messing up things.

⚛ Another example. I arrive in a new city to attend an event/ interview or for some treatment, and realize there’s a bus, auto, taxi driver’s strike. They are protesting local government. I miss or am too late for the event. I have no role but suffered, nonetheless. I call it fate.

⚛ Here are some insights from those great minds I look up to-

➝ What Cassius has to tell Brutus (Julius Caesar, Shakespeare) about destiny:

‘❛ The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/But in ourselves, that we are underlings’❜ ✮⋆˙✶⋆.˚

⚛ And Carl G Jung, the great psychoanalyst defines fate in his own profound way –

➝❛The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate❜. ⋆˙⟡

February 26, 2026
Chiku Shake 🧋

Chiku, also called Sapodilla. This I learnt after some search otherwise I always call this round brown fruit, Chiku. Actually, I’m not a great fan of chiku but Chiku Shake! It’s luscious! It’s yummy! It’s simple! It’s slurpy! It’s divine! … 👌

And O yes, it’s quick and snappy! Here’s how you can fix it quick. Blend chiku with cold milk. Of course peel it before putting it in the blender. No added sugar.

Don’t, don’t forget to add a big pinch of cinnamon powder when you put things in the blender. It’s cinnamon that makes it awsome. Give it a try. you know proof of the pudding is in eating. 😋

February 13, 2026
The Best Gift I Received

Daily writing prompt
Share one of the best gifts you’ve ever received.
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My father gave me the best gift I ever received. It has been more than a decade since Pa passed away but his gift I still cherish. It provides the silver lining when the dark clouds loom. To me it’s a source of comfort and a guiding force. It’s like a spring that never runs dry. ༘⋆🌷🫧💭

Whenever a tune thrills me, a verse stirs my soul and words inspire deep thoughts, I thank my father. It was he who kindled in me the love for music and literature through his own passion.📚𝄞

February 11, 2026
I Go With GPS

I read this prompt and was prompting myself to write about. I thought of all gadgets, home appliances that made life simple and easy. Then came mobile phone, online banking, cashless transactions.

But most important? I could not zero in on one, the most important, until I read about Dr Glady West, who died recently, July 17, 2026. She is the woman behind GPS. A mathematician whose research laid the groundwork for global position system.

This, of all inventions, is the most important one for me. Why? Because I have always struggled with driving due to my terrible sense of direction. My sense of direction is so pathetic that I could get lost anywhere, even in my neighbourhood. How often I wonder this building was on the left how come it’s come on the right! Now of course, the building won’t move.

If I had to go somewhere, no matter how well someone explained directions I could never trust my sense. At every turn I asked directions. Going anywhere alone meant a lot of stress, even if I had been to a place several times. People invited me ‘Come over, you can drive.’ ‘Yes, I can, but how do I tell you what my problem is’.(´•︵•`)

But all this is a thing of past. No getting lost, nor asking directions ever since GPS came into my life. My life changed. I feel safe, secure, confident. Tell me ‘where to’ and I’ll drive. And since then GPS has become my constant companion on all drives, even when I know the way and I drive to the place frequently. With GPS as my guide, I’m never alone.

Thank you Dr Gladys West for navigating my life! 🌹

February 4, 2026
Give Me Break ⚒️

Daily writing prompt
Do you need a break? From what?
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You know what! I need a break from daily chores. I don’t want to cook three meals every day and I love to eat home cooked food and have no appetite for ordered food.

I want to go to a place where there’s no laundry, nor dishes, nor cleaning. I want freedom from house work and I want a tidy home.

Even as I am writing I am dreaming of a life where I have some more me time, some more books, my laptop, my kindle, my music system and my long walks with my companion.

Do dreams come true? ⋆˚₊ 𖤓☽˚.⋆

February 1, 2026
My All Time Favourite Candy

Daily writing prompt
What’s your favorite candy?
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These are jaggery cubes.

If these are too big for me, I cut it into pieces, pop one, roll it in my mouth and let it melt 🙂 I usually like to have one after meals.

Have you tried it ever?

January 30, 2026
and it never gets done…

Daily writing prompt
Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done.
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I was 10 when some guest speaker addressed us, students, in our school. He expatiated on the virtues of rising early and made a deep impression on young me. Before that, I often heard from my father ‘Early to bed and early to rise…’ ⋆.˚ ☾⭒.˚

⏰So in my early days I made a resolve to be an early bird. I often set the alarm for 4 or 5 am but alarm could never rouse me from my slumberand even if it did I soon dozed back. 💤

My mother finally told me not to set the alarm as it woke up everybody but me. I agreed on the condition that she would get me up. That too didn’t work and whatever time I was up I threw a tantrum why she did not get me out of bed in time. 😫

Decades later my dream of being ‘healthy, wealthy and wise’ is still unrealized. ッ

January 29, 2026
My Ideal Day

Daily writing prompt
Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end.
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🌄 I wake up in time to catch the glimpse of the rising sun. I like to behold the ruddy sky in the east. Then i sit or lie down calmly thinking my thoughts. When I’m done I’ll stretch and sit for my Pranayam.🪷 I lie down some more listening to my favourite songs by Pt Jasraj, Kumar Gandharv, Begum Akhtar or whichever song has me under its spell at that moment. I play that again and again. ♫

No chores please! And no plans either!

📚I then pick some books and my kindle too. Those are at the hand so I lift them without having to get up. Surrounded by the books thus, now I pick my phone check mails, messages, feed, some shopping site while books wait for me. One fine moment I’d shove it away, pick a book and immerse myself. Once in a while I pause and wonder at the beauty of thoughts and words. I doze off, read again, listen to the music and keep alternating between these.

🍂Come evening and I need to go for a long walk with a friend, we talk, exchange ideas, sit on the bench or the grass, feel the breeze, gaze up, chill some more…some writing before retiring. 😴

Oh, I didn’t say a word about meals. I don’t want to give much thought to it. Fruits, juices, soups, coffee would be fine on an ideal day. 🍍🍎🍓🍇☕⛾☕︎

January 28, 2026
Books I want to Read

Like Rudyard Kipling’s Yellow Dog Dingo, I am ‘always hungry’ (📚). I want to reread so many from Shakespeare’s tragedies, comedies to Coleridge’s The Rime of Ancient Mariner, to Kipling’s Just So Stories, Jungle Book, to Midnights Children, to all the books by Hans Anderson, all the books by Jim Corbett, all the books by Munshi Premchand and so many more.

However, currently on the top is the latest book by Salman Rushdie ‘The Eleventh Hour’ and one audiobook ‘Sunny Boy’. Guess who wrote this.

January 26, 2026
What do I complain about most?

(﹙˓ ‍🎧 ˒﹚)The noise. The blaring loud speakers, be it a festival or a wedding or victory. Also people sitting close and talking loudly at high pitch makes me recoil.

Hey, don’t get me wrong. I love soft, calming , soothing sounds. 🎹🎶 𓂃 ོ☼𓂃 ⊹ ࣪ ﹏𓊝﹏𓂁﹏⊹ ࣪ ˖

January 26, 2026