One afternoon, the meeting invite arrives without a subject line.
By evening, the badge no longer works, the inbox has gone quiet, and the title you wore for years has quietly slipped from your shoulders.
For a while, you wait for the shock to lift. It doesn't, exactly — it just settles into something else. A question.
That question is not the end of your career. It's the doorway into the most honest one you'll ever build.




