And suddenly, I was overcome with the urgent need to uncoil myself from the fetal position I had assumed for so long. I was groggy, sluggish. I felt 100 years older. The world around me had rotted away from my neglect. Yet beneath this disintegrated mass of waste, I found that the massive corner beams were still intact; the foundation stood.
My strength returned to me in bursts. My pulse quickened as the blood returned to my muscles.
I was reinvigorated. I cried out within myself "I can rebuild!"
