These days the periods get shorter, recovery comes faster. It must be the numbness, the habit, the frequency and easiness of slipping into situations and becoming familiar with them. Although we will never be masters of our own fears. But we can get used to the pain we feel every time we feel it in our faces again, full frontal, a thousand million weight of daggers plummeting into that sore and bloody wound. We can prepare, we can brace, we can anticipate, but never recover. Never heal.