What if you lost everything right now?

Your entire work history. Your life story. Everything.

Where would you want to go from here?

Which target would you aim at?

If you can answer the question honestly it can be very telling.

We often cling to our narratives and past selves. Keeping us exactly where we are. Making sure we stay on the path crafted for us from a younger more naive self.

But if you lost everything right now. Even if it’s in a figurative manner. How would things change?

How would you change? What would you do? Where would you go?

You might find your answer surprises you. Even if you don’t have an answer at all, you might find a weight lifted off your shoulders. A burden, gone missing despite years of blood, sweat, and tears, crafting your identity into who you are today. Because when you burn it all down, you get to start over again. But this time, with new information, more wisdom, and without the weight of the past.

Perhaps a rebirth is something that we can give to ourselves. Not something to be handed to us. Maybe not even something to be considered a tragedy.

So, if everything burned to the ground and you lost everything.

Where would you go?

by Jason Lam