Billy Crystal lost the Pacific Palisades house where he had lived since 1979. Paris Hilton watched her Malibu beach mansion burn down on live TV. Jamie Lee Curtis, James Woods, Mandy Moore, Mark Hamill and Maria Shriver were among the other celebrities forced to evacuate as out-of-control fires in Los Angeles swept across some of the most lavish real estate in the world.

As we turn a new leaf into a new year, we all get hopeful about the memories and achievements we hope to make. But, as a natural fact of life, sometimes life doesn’t go our way and loss is an inevitable part of that.