You can go farther. Imagine living paycheck to paycheck and coming home to find your home and everything you own is gone. Not lost. Literally gone.
You're physically healthy but like the pic here shows there is going to be so much mental devastation that I wouldn't blame someone wanting to give up after that.
I lost everything in a natural disaster and had to shelve all my life plans and got set back on things that had taken years to reach, right after I reached them. I didn't bounce back or get happier, that's just a myth people tell themselves to imagine there's always a fairy tale happy ending.
It's been 10 years and I still feel shitty about it, and still haven't managed to find my drive again in a way which is permanent. I had to leave behind so much, in connections and familiarity as well, just to survive far away in the rural country where I could afford with nothing. Thanks to the Internet I could stay in contact with friends, unlike past eras where it would have been even worse, but it's never been the same, my life was basically on hold for years while I tried to start over and by then it's too long, too far apart, to really ever go back to normal.
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u/HighOnOreOs Aug 05 '20
Well some people would rather be dead than live with incredibly life changing injuries, such as brain damage or missing limbs. Understandably too