What Falls Faster: A Man or His Shares?
A man spends his life climbing. He stacks wealth like bricks, builds his empire one trade at a time, convinces himself that his rise is inevitable. He tells himself he is different—that he is the master of the game, not just another name in the ledger.
Then, one day, the numbers turn red. The market shifts, the floor vanishes, and suddenly, he is not climbing—he is falling.
But here’s the question: What hits the ground first—the stock or the man who bet his life on it?
The market is a machine without a soul. It does not care how smart you think you are, how carefully you planned, or how high you once stood. It rewards and destroys without hesitation, without emotion.
The man who rises forgets this. He mistakes luck for genius, timing for talent. He believes he is in control—until the moment he isn’t.
Because when the fall comes, it is never slow. It does not give warnings. It does not offer second chances. It happens all at once—an empire reduced to ashes before the closing bell.
A stock is just a number. It does not feel shame. It does not wake up in a cold sweat, reliving the moment everything collapsed. It does not have to look in the mirror and face the man who lost everything.
But a man? A man carries the weight.
The ones who thought themselves untouchable—who mocked the cautious, who leveraged everything, who flew too close to the sun—these are the ones who fall the hardest. And when the market takes its pound of flesh, it is never satisfied with money alone.
Reputation, confidence, sanity—these are the real losses. Because a stock can recover. But can the man?
When the fall begins, there are only two kinds of men: those who brace for impact and those who refuse to accept it.
Some fight, clawing for a way back up. They take the loss, swallow the pain, and start again. The market has no memory—it does not care how many times a man has fallen, only if he has the will to rise.
But others? They don’t wait to see where they land.
They step off the ledge before their shares do.
Because in the end, the answer to the question is simple: Stocks may crash, but a man can always fall faster.
