SYEDA RAHMA ALTAF

Dynamic and results-driven individual with hands-on experience from an internship at Mojza, where I honed my time management and communication skills. Proven ability to lead projects and enhance learning experiences, while efficiently meeting deadlines. A fast learner with a positive attitude, eager to contribute to team success.

WHEN WRITING FINALLY STARTED MAKING SENSE TO ME.

I have never really called myself a “writer.” I wasn’t the kid who carried a notebook around or stayed up late scribbling poems. Honestly, I used to think writing was only for people who were already good at it .. who had something big or brilliant to say.But one random evening .. I think it was after a pretty rough day at school... I came across a quote while scrolling online. It was from To kill a Mockingbird
“You never truly understand someone until you consider things from his/her perspective, until you climb into their skin and walk around in it.”I don’t know why that hit me so hard. I must’ve read it five times. It just... stayed with me. It reminded me of how often we overlook the quiet stuff ...the effort someone makes to listen, the way someone looks at you when you’re not watching, the silence after an argument. Those things matter, but we miss them because they’re not loud. That quote helped me realize that even small, quiet things can carry real weight. That was the moment I started thinking about writing differently. Not as a performance, but as a way to hold on to little truths. Since then, I’ve written short notes to myself ... lines I like, thoughts that make me pause. Nothing big. Just private reflections, like mental sticky notes.And maybe that’s what creative writing really is: noticing something, feeling something, and trying to pin it down with the right words ..not perfectly, just honestly. I still don’t write every day. I don’t have a blog full of essays or a folder full of poems. But now and then, when something strikes me ...a sentence in a book, a quiet conversation, a memory I thought I forgot — I write it down. Not to impress anyone, but to understand it better. And if my words ever make someone else pause, the way that single quote made me pause… then maybe I am a writer after all.