Salams and Hello Everyone!
Penning my musings is slow because there's so much to catch up on! It's no excuse, but this is LIFE ðŸ¤.
Yes, just like the heading of this topic I grew up thinking that the knowledge gained over time in a certain field applied only to that profession. How wrong I was!
Alhamdulillah, with age/time comes wisdom and a clearer vision of things.
I have been in the engineering space for over twenty years and along the way, I began to worry about the essence of all I had learned over the years. It bothered me that I could not SEE where or how to apply what I knew; except in my field! This saddened me greatly. I searched online on how to go about this but that did not help. This went on for years until I slowly began to muse about this quote attributed to Jalaluddin Rumi, which goes:
"Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself."
I'll be honest, it sounded nice but I wasn't really sure how it worked. It kept on being a part of my subconscious, me just trying to chip away at its intended meaning one chisel-on-a-rock at a time; until a particular day where I carried out some network analysis and on my way home from work, I was caught in light traffic and just wondered at the amazing ingenuity of creating flyover bridges. I always had a fascination for bridges, roads, and buildings - I guess - due to my dad's profession as a civil engineer.
And like a groom who lifts the veil to reveal his new wife's face for the very first time, I could SEE the relationship between carrying out a network analysis, flyover bridges, interlinked roads, and the human body! 👊
This was very exciting for me and now, I had a new hobby of thinking about the relationships between seemingly disconnected things, events, and concepts.
And because I also carry out systems design and analysis, I could now project my knowledge from that aspect to health-related matters and life in general.
Wow! this was so exciting for me and I then decided to see the connection - if any - between pressure gradients across systems and the human body...let me just say this, the human body is indeed the final frontier. You can practically find the whole universe within it, and all it requires is the willingness to see things differently, think differently, do things differently, and asking LOTS of questions...questions to yourself, others, and the universe!
And of course, having used and implemented root cause analysis throughout my engineering profession, all I needed was to cast the net of accumulated insights over time; over any other field and draw as much from there as I possibly could.
Alhamdulillah, I believe this is a favour, grace, and bounty from Allah, as I could never have been able to interlink all these diverse bodies of knowledge on my own; nor even begin to think there was any relationship!
The ability to synthesize different bodies of knowledge affords me the opportunity to be confident as a Hijama Cupping Therapist and deliver result-oriented goals to my clients.
Do you believe that your current or past profession has no relationship with your other interests?
I challenge you to dive deep within and see if you won't come out with surprising treasures!
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