Who & Why?

Abdelhamid Niati
3 min readJun 15, 2024

Look at this city, the one you are visualizing right now. Do you see this 15-story building? Now you see it. I’ll let you give it a color, but I impose this man on you at the top. Approach him from the right and observe his hesitant gaze. He trembles because he hesitates; Do I jump or not? If I let myself slip, I will have no more holds and no chance of catching up. The real question he should ask himself is: “Do I want to live or not?” Simply. His trembling betrays him because he wants to give up on continuing his existence. Why exactly? He thinks he has failed in his life and never achieved anything. At first, it kept him from sleeping, then the anxiety went from the nocturnal phase to a daytime phase. He thinks this because he is a compulsive perfectionist. Nothing is perfect enough for him. He sets the bar so high that he gives up on gaining momentum to do what he loves doing and what some expect of him. His hands gave wonderful prose and beautiful stories, but moving to the longer format is problematic. He is afraid of disappointing. Fear is this primary emotion that can block or protect us. It all depends on the reception we give it.

Question: who is unanimous?

God himself is not worshiped by all his creation. So a human can’t either. Perfection is divine, imperfection is human, The reasons why we make so many mistakes, are to mark out our projects, correct the situation, but above all to…

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Abdelhamid Niati

Writer, content manager and business coach. I am also the Head of people and the Content Manager for a non profit organisation created in Africa.