When Pizza Paco shut down the Pizzeria, he felt lost. Who was he if not Pizza Paco? His real name was David. Was he going to go back to just being David again? He had a whole identity wrapped up in Pizza Paco. But without a pizzeria, was there a Pizza Paco?
“You can still be Pizza Paco,” his friend Debbie said. “You used to own a Pizzeria. I don’t think that needs to change.”
“But am I just living in the past?” Pizza Paco asked.
“Maybe you can still make pizzas for special occasions,” his friend Michael suggested. “Everyone knows that when the Fourth of July comes, we can count on Pizza Paco to deliver.”
“That’s a lot of equipment I would have to buy. And I don’t think it would work as a charity or as a business.”
Pizza Paco just felt lost—stuck between the guy who made pizza and his former self, a guy named David, whom he didn’t know anymore.
One day, he ran into an old customer. Pizza Paco was happy to see the customer (although he didn’t know his name) and explained his dilemma.
“It doesn’t sound like you want to make pizza anymore,” the customer said. “But the name is so tied to your identity.”
“That sums it up,” Pizza Paco said.
“Well, Pizza Paco, why not try tacos?” the customer said. “Then you could be Paco Taco.”