Question

Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:

“Yes, because it’s so easy to lose it all, to let someone take it away from you.”

1. What does the speaker refer to as ‘it’?
2. When does one lose ‘it’?
3. How had the speaker gained such profound knowledge about ‘it’?

Answer 1

1. ‘It’ refers to one’s dream or inner purpose.
2. A person loses it by giving up on it or letting others discourage them from pursuing it.
3. The speaker’s understanding comes from his own experience of having lost his dream.