Imagine: the total & utter destruction of everything we have ever loved or admired

The devastation has become entirely possible -- and we need to think about it.

pick a stick; no matter which, it comes tumbling down.

Picture this.

You are a dreamer. But you are very practical too. You are not a day dreamer… not by any means.Your head is not in the clouds.

Your feet have always been on the ground. You are a planner. And you work at a high capacity.

These abilities have brought you interesting opportunities. Some of which you have seized. And those have gone well. Your interests have aligned well with the culture and the industries around them, in that you generally have been able to make the things you wanted to make and have them appreciated by others. There’s not much you can complain about, at least not on that front.

Sometimes you are excellent, even if you have to say so yourself… but you also know at other moments you have a bit of tendency to self-sabotage. That is sort of a guilty pleasure, right? Somehow, perversely perhaps, you’ve grown to like the world when it doesn’t want what you are selling. I guess you’ve known that — for the longest time — things were still safe, and probably always would be, at least for you and your kind.

So what if you were wrong? Maybe even wronger than you realized… You now are recognizing that this world is headed down. It is being torn apart. This, all of this, will not be here much longer. And it won’t be just a hiccup. It is not coming back. It won’t be repaired.

If things ever get better again, they will be different from now.

When things started to go bad, or at least got a bit worse, you were already pretty satisfied with what you had accomplished earlier. Lucky you. This is not to say you were done, or ever willing to hang up one of the many hats you were wearing. There are so many boxes unchecked after all, but still, whether it was helping others to have the chances you enjoyed or still trying to make that one great work that no one could ignore, you still had things to get done.

Has that time been lost now? Forever? Were you doing things wrong?

You’ve been trying to apply the unique experiences you’ve had in a manner that would allow other that haven’t been as fortunate to benefit, but that’s a hard act to gain traction on. Do you just do the one-to-one sort of mentorship, or do you do the more general approach of writing and pondering that could have greater reach, but perhaps less impact? You can do both, but even then, is it enough?

Is there something else that can be done to alter chance? Hold us from what is growing inevitable? Will all be lost? What’s it going to take to save us from this fate?

Sometimes it can be really helpful to imagine losing everything. Many already have. Many have not had to imagine it. Many have it experienced it first hand. And it could happen to you. It could be happening right now and you are not even noticing it. Think about it. It may be already lost. What would that mean to you? Would it change how you are acting right now?