fear (of losing everything) is one hell of a motivator

I write this thinking of everyone who had to build themselves from scratch in a foreign country, who had to put their pride aside and took the low-wage job to make ends meet, who only have themselves for a safety net. In such position, I think most of us carry the same rooted fear, and it isn't "What if I fail?" It's closer to, "What if I lose everything I've built and end up back in the exact…