The "Loser" Who Won

He's the loser who won, and won big-time. And the winning began when he lost his job. Perhaps you'd say he was a born loser. He never finished grade one and came from a very poor family. He came to Manila to work, thinking that was the answer to his sorry plight, but it just seemed to have made things worse. Then he lost his job--and that started his breakthrough which launched him to millions! 

Literally millions. Which he would never have made if he had stuck with employment,which he had planned on doing in the first place but was prevented by some twist of fate. He felt it was the end of the world, not realizing it was just the beginning of his break--he was about to be jobless big-time. But of course, he didn't know it at the time--like you do not know if you're going to make it big someday if you risked doing an alternative livelihood now, or fail with a resounding crash.

Sometimes, we need a bit of a push of fate, or have it literally drag us to success because of our timidity and stubborn insistence to cling to our jobs and our comfort zones which we think is a refuge and a fountain of life.  Fate sometimes even has to cruelly force us or shake us violently just to loosen our desperate clutch to employment and the usual run of things and put us in our rightful place.

So it demolishes our "hopes" and leaves us with nothing so we can start anew. Nope, we cannot build from the remnants of the erroneous past. We must walk on its ashes and find a new site to build on. Like what God told the Israelites--leave Egypt, go through the wilderness, and build in the Promised Land. And if you choose to build in the new territory of being jobless big-time, you must go through the wilderness first.

Then you'd be the loser who won.