Losing Everything

Isn't it quite funny how we are taught to work hard and chase the things that we want, reach for our dreams, be the person we wish to become and so on. But no one really taught us what to do or what to prepare when we lose everything. We're not really equipped with the knowledge that prepare us for this.

Are you ready to lose everything?

We see a lot of inspiring articles and videos about chasing our dreams. To work hard to become great and successful. We feel so driven about doing it when we read/watch them. Sometimes even, too driven that life becomes a beautiful painting inside our mind. And it never leaves us.

But what if one day everything changed? What if one day our life doesn't become the painting we imagined it to be. Our dreams changed, falling back into an empty canvas because of some unforeseen circumstances. Do you have a plan B? Are we ready and willing to lose them to start anew?

Like the saying goes: life isn't measured by our successes but by the times we rise everytime we fall.

Sometimes we become so fixated in the idea of becoming a "somebody" that when things don't go our way, we become confused and things turn chaotic. So yeah, how much can we let go?

I do feel that there are three kinds of people in this world. There are people who live where failure isn't an option. People who live a life where they believe that they cannot fail. And people with different plans who can accept the outcome they receive, and make changes.

Of course, I'm not saying that we should all love failures and that we should be "okay" if we're not focused on reaching our goals and not reach them. I just feel that we should embrace failures because like the Chinese saying goes, they are the mothers of success. What I'm referring in this post is when things change unexpectedly due to unforeseen circumstances that we cannot avoid.

I feel that we often forget that we live in an impermanent world. Where things are in constant change and nothing stays the same. Sometimes for the better and sometimes, for the worst. Sometimes we become the person we want to be and sometimes we don't. We become someone else.

The problem is we crave for permanence in this impermanent world.

Working hard to reach our dreams and goals, and to become someone we wish to be is no easy task either. But it is something that everyone does. When it comes to becoming someone we don't plan to become, I think it's a whole new different story. Losing everything we thought we would own, and then making a new move forward after that. How well can you execute this art form?

So I'd like to ask you three questions:

1. Are you ready to lose everything?

2. To lose your dreams and the person you wish to become?

3. And ultimately, are you ready to leave this place when your time's up?