By Pavel Hrejsemnou – Author of “What Will Remain After Us”

There are books we write because we have an idea.
There are books we write because we have a dream.
And then there are books that demand to be written because silence is no longer possible.

What Will Remain After Us belongs to the third category.

This book did not appear overnight.
It grew slowly — out of quiet moments, reflections, observations, and the kind of experiences that shape a person only when he stops fighting for approval and starts fighting for the truth.

When I first wrote the opening lines of the original trilogy, I had no idea that one day these thoughts would connect into a single work — a single arc of the human journey.
A journey from courage… to values… to legacy.
From seeking identity… to seeking meaning… to seeking truth.

And that is why this book exists.

By Pavel Hrejsemnou Author of “What Will Remain After Us”

A Book for the Reader Who Feels More Than the World Allows

This book is not written for everyone.
It is written for the reader who has felt, at least once in life, that something essential is missing — not in the world, but within himself.

For the person who has worn so many roles that he no longer hears his own voice.
For the one who wonders why the world feels louder, faster, and more chaotic every year.
For the one who senses that the most important things in life are quiet, subtle, and often ignored.

If you are someone who has ever asked yourself:

  • Who am I without my roles?

  • How can I stay true to myself in a world full of noise?

  • Why do I fear losing what was never truly mine?

  • What will remain of me when the doors finally close?

— then this book is my offering to you.

Because at the heart of this work lies a simple truth:

“Everything we do eventually becomes a trace — small, quiet, invisible to the world, but real.
And that trace is the only thing that will remain after us.”
— What Will Remain After Us

For Those Who Are Tired of Pretending

This book is written for people who are exhausted not by life, but by the version of life they were told to live.
People who no longer want to chase illusions.
People who feel that performance has replaced presence, and that success without soul is just an elegant form of emptiness.

In the original Czech edition, I often wrote about the masks we wear — parent, partner, leader, creator — and what happens the moment we put them down.
In English, these words carry the same weight, because the hunger for authenticity has no borders.

“When you discover who you are without your role, you stop fearing loss.
Because everything you can lose was never your essence.”
— What Will Remain After Us

If you are at a crossroads, if you feel the quiet invitation to pause, or if life is asking you questions you can no longer ignore — this book is for you.

For Those Who Need to Remember What Truly Matters

Modern life teaches us to value what shines.
But it often asks us to forget the things that actually keep us alive.

This book is an invitation to return to what is real:

  • to presence
  • to silence
  • to inner truth
  • to the courage to live without pretending
  • to the ability to stand for the weak even when it costs something
  • to the wisdom of nature
  • to the strength of uncertainty
  • to the simplicity we lost on the way to complexity

The world is full of noise, expectations, opinions, and comparisons.
But the most important voice we will ever hear is the one inside us.

And this book exists to help you hear it again.

“Our voice never disappears.
It only waits until we become quiet enough to hear it again.”
— What Will Remain After Us

A Book for Those Who Are Still Searching

I did not write this book as an expert.
I wrote it as a fellow traveler.

A man who has made mistakes, who has learned from silence more than from applause, and who believes that meaning is never found in the places where the world tells us to look.

This book will not give you ready-made answers.
But it may help you ask the right questions.
And these questions, once you dare to ask them, change everything:

  • What do I truly value?
  • What am I afraid to lose — and why?
  • What remains when everything external falls away?
  • What world do I leave behind through the way I live today?

Because in the end, the book is not about me.
It is about you.
About the trace you are creating, consciously or unconsciously, every single day.

Why I Believe This Book Matters

I believe this book speaks to the part of you that the world keeps asking you to hide —
the quiet part,
the honest part,
the courageous part,
the part that wants to live truthfully, even when it is uncomfortable.

It is a reminder that life is not measured by achievements, but by presence.
Not by noise, but by depth.
Not by how loudly we speak, but by how truthfully we live.

And when all roles fall away and all stories end, only one question remains:

What will remain after us?

If even one single sentence from this book stops you, opens you up quietly, or makes you breathe differently than yesterday — then it had meaning.
And I thank you for holding it in your hands.

— Pavel Hrejsemnou