THE LOTUS LANE

When a layoff wave hits and your future feels like standing water, the instinct is to freeze or spiral. This strip holds a quieter idea: the hard moment isn't proof you're done — it's the exact place where something new gets built, if you don't hand the wheel over to fear.

“It is precisely in difficult times that we must never be defeated. Difficulties are not a reason to give up but a springboard to leap forward.”

- Daisaku Ikeda, For Today and Tomorrow