Ground-zero

If you are standing there today—at the edge of your personal Ground Zero—please hear this: You are not late. You are right on time.

Here is the final truth. Most of us are not first responders. We don’t arrive at Ground Zero when the sirens are still wailing. We arrive days, months, or years later, when the news crews have left and the world has moved on to the next disaster. ground-zero

Go sift. Go find your gold. If you are currently standing in your own Ground Zero, the comments are open as a safe space. No advice. No fixing. Just witnessing. If you are standing there today—at the edge

To stand at Ground Zero is to experience a terrifying democracy of destruction. It does not care if you were a saint or a sinner. It does not care if you had a 401(k) or a perfect credit score. The blast wave treats the CEO and the janitor as equals. In that leveled field, we are forced to confront the raw, unvarnished truth of our mortality. Most of us are not first responders