To avert one’s attention by keeping busy seems like a good solution to quieten the worries. It might even be the healthy way of looking after one’s mental health. But I don’t fully believe in this. Maybe it’s a short-term fix. Maybe, momentarily, shifting all your focus will help, depending on one’s situation, but it’s…

In the midst of the chaos that goes through my head, I search for the calming silence to help me get by and make sense of life. I search for that in my deen (religion and way of life), my work, my knowledge, my interests… yet I can’t seem to locate it easily. I have…

I often ask myself why I chose engineering. Not because I regret it, but because I find myself wondering what exactly pulled me towards it in the first place. For me, it started with Maths and Science at school. I had always been good at Maths; albeit only after a few years of hard work…