Life is the name of loss and profit game

What is the greatest loss? Question is million dollars, it may have thousand answers depending on the conditions. Any setback in life is great loss. It depends on the sufferer how does he or she take it or face the situation.

Heart break:

Loss of love becomes greatest loss of life to many youths when they are in their tender age (between 16 to 26). Time is such a remedy that it heals all your wounds. However, if you are unmarried or bachelor this age limit may extend further until you start feeling that you are no more a young guy. Sometime this may be so shocking, you will notice some day that you have lost everything to compensate this loss. When you get mature and look back at these incidents and analyse your behaviour you will laugh at your behaviour if you were subject to such a situation in the past (broken love).

Wealth lost:

Loss in business may become the greatest loss in life to a bussinessman. When your livelihood depends on the bussiness activity you are involved in. When you have liabilities, the greatest loss of your life is the loss of money. Materialistic loss, though, is not the greatest loss as you can make up this loss if you get opportunity to do so. Best strategy to cope up with this situation is to diversify your activities so that loss in a business not become the greatest loss of your life.

Failures of children:

Greatest loss in the life for parents are failures of their children to achieve good education and good job. At least in developing countries, dream of most parents is to provide good education to their children and to accomplish it they may go to any extent so that their children could lead a good and prosperous life. However, greatest shock of life to parents come when they find that their childern are performing below average. Several times parents force their children to excel in a certain field. Its not a thing to appreciate. There are thousands of options so don't compell your children to pursue a particular professional course. Best strategy to deal with this sort of problem is to analyze capabilities of your children and help them to choose a course of their interest.

Death of someone very close:

Sometimes loss of life may be the rudest shock of life to many near and dear ones. Greatest loss of life to several people may occur in form of loss of their jobs on which their livelihood depends. Loosing a match in "World cup" may be greatest loss of life to a team of players or to the coach of the team. Missing a last opportunity may result in greatest loss of life to many. Like this answer will vary person to person. However, this is a great question and it will be intersting to see if people post below ther answers.

Loss of self respect:

This is in fact the greatest loss in life. If self respect is lost everything is lost.