How going with the flow is the most dangerous game to spend your youth with.

Jamal Ballouk
2 min readApr 28, 2021

I’ve always thought that I’m a quick witted person until few months far, I’ve even had lots of signs during my school years, apparently it was just impressions of signs that i am a quick witted person, and allow me to repeat that word a lot here because i hate it now , haha ok ; so the point is similar somehow to what some people write down in their CVs i mean the “attention to details “ thing, because some of those guys could easily miss seeing a flying elephant over the traffic rail, in other words how can i be quick witted while it took me years to understand what was originally obvious and clear;

There’s lots of people, and I’m one of them, made too many decisions during unstable emotional moments weather ups or downs it doesn’t matter and there were sometimes at least one unforgettable consequence due to that decisions, and what amazes me is that i couldn’t even notice that it’s so wrong to do so, to live without really thinking and make stupid decisions and when you start loosing control you try to go with the flow;

Maybe there’s nothing can really define some of our daily words in our daily life at the first place and still we don’t call it metaphysical, exactly as being quick witted or not because in the end it has no connection with taking the right decision or not especially when we think on the long run as well, so maybe this could be an explanation on why everyone made at least one bad decision, we didn’t really know back then, or we didn’t pay attention, “attention to details” again;

Eventually what happened is happened we can’t do anything about it even it’s marks in us are just like a tattoo on your arm, once you have it you don’t really start moving your tattoo it’s still your arm what’s moving and you who’s taking the decisions not the ink,

The 2nd part of this, assuming the latter was the 1st part already, is after making a bad decision since we all did apparently, first rule don’t go with the flow, because when you heck things up the flow always doesn’t flow towards your side especially when you are the person who took the wrong decision,

at least a little story when you are the hero of it, a hero villain, that’s ok too, relax even right decisions seems wrong sometimes, just stay awake to details, think fast but 100 times and act slow and let it be once and for all, but whatever happened don’t go with the flow.

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Jamal Ballouk

Because somebody had to write about the tragedy of existence with a sense of humor.