“Tell me about some of the most difficult problems you worked on and how you solved them.”
By: Iqra Sajjad
Tags: Humanity, Teamwork, Humanitarian, Culture, Challenges And Growth

The most difficult problems in my opinion do not come from working in an organization or a corporate setting. They arise from having to deal with cultural and social belief systems that set you back decades, no, eras. The concepts that result in the stagnation of humanity vs evolution of humanity — those are the most difficult problems that I have faced.

The modern world is no stranger to the restrictions of religious belief systems especially of those imposed on women in many cultures. I belong to such a religion/culture that does not allow me to even ask the question “why”?

It is considered “blasphemy” a “sin” that is punishable by death. To be educated by such narcissistic belief systems and teachers — If that is not the most serious and the most difficult problem to have faced then I do not know what is.

Which leads me to answer the second part of this question. How I solved it. The simple answer is that I actually got the fuck out of that system and moved.

But that is not the whole truth. It takes a certain level of self sacrifice to challenge such a society. You learn to sacrifice all your friends and even some that you called family. You learn to sacrifice all “respect” (as they call it) and learn to become comfortable in being a “non believer” or where a woman dare challenge, a “slut”. You learn to sacrifice your existence in that world. A form of a (mental) suicide which then leads you to a more liberating after life.

Yes you read that right. A slut. For challenging history, because that is the only way that society will take away what is most dear to you and replace it with what they perceive to be an “insult”. That is the only way that can have the illusion of victory over you — “if we just destroy this person’s self esteem with our self-created demeaning concepts, then no one will ever dare challenge”. and it works for them greatly. Why? Because of our evolutionary need to be socially accepted to gain security (that if we stick to our tribe we will not get eaten by lions rather work together to kill the lion). You can now clearly see why that line of thinking is already redundant. We must not fear the lion that does not exist anymore.

What is a slut anyway? It is a name they called for a woman with a certain need of satisfaction of her sexual desires. That is biology. That is evolution. That is NOT an insult. They create it an insult and then use it against you to make you feel like you have been left out in the cold to fend for yourself against that make belief lion. To distort your reality just enough to make you reconsider your SELF — instilling fear and deriving a flight or flight response.

Oh no, we must not fall for that you see. We must not fall for that illusion for that is merely what it is — an illusion. The lion is not there so chose to fight.

So to sum up the whole truth then, dear friends, I did solve the problem, but for myself only. However this is just the start.

I have yet to remove the problem’s very existence. It is not something I can do on my own, no no. I would be extremely cocky and insane to think that. It is only something we can solve together. Individually yes, but together as a whole!

Ohhh the irony my lovelies…Universe does have a sense of humour after all!