What If (Worst Case Scenarios)

In 2013, shortly after getting divorced, I realized that I could be okay no matter what happened. So, I made this list.

What if...

• someone threw away your computer, and iPad and phone and camera…
• everything you ever worked on — all your emails, photos, documents, files, projects, and ideas — disappeared
• all your books, self-help CDs, and music, went up in smoke
• you never listened to any bit of advice that anyone, including those you really respect, had ever given you
• you never did what you perceive that others think you should do
• you didn't save the world
• you never traveled to an exotic location again or even outside the country again
• you never published a book or gave a Ted talk or "impressed " anyone
• you never became a professional photographer, or artist or coach
• all of your "friends" became disappointed in you or thought you were making bad decisions, even to the point where they walked away
• you never got into good shape
• you never learned how to not be a fast-and-dirty programmer
• you never "fix" another single person
• you don't get re-married and/or have children
• society always viewed you a not quire making it because you still live with roommates, etc
• you don't convince the world whats right
• you never completely understand the past
• you don't own a corporation
• you are the black sheep
• people think you are a criminal
• someone finds this list
• your dreams don't come true and your fears do
• you blow a ton of money on yourself instead of giving it away
• your peers think you're  not as smart as you think you are or as they previously thought you were
• you got arrested for something you didn't do for for that matter something you did do or unintentionally did
• you had everything but lost it all
• you started another business with all your new knowledge, that still failed
• despite your best efforts to be fashionable and hygienic, you are neither
• you never fully reconcile your childhood
• your parents never really get you
• karma doesn't exist
• republicans are right
• you are never able to reconcile with your ex-wife or past friends or girlfriends you may have wronged, whether or not intentionally
• you're not as smart or nice as you think you are 

EVERYTHING WOULD BE JUST FINE!