Mohammad Sohail

How Losing My Job Saved My Life

**The Hook** The email arrived at 9:03 AM: *"Your position has been terminated effective immediately."* Twenty minutes later, I set off the fire alarm while burning toast—a fitting metaphor for my life. As smoke choked my apartment, I laughed until I cried. Rock bottom, it turns out, tastes like charcoal and self-pity. But that day became the first page of a story I never saw coming .