Does this ever happen to you?

One second things are fine, or at least they feel like it. You’re carrying on with your day and things might go wrong but you know it’ll all work out. Nothing feels like the end of the world, no matter how embarrassing they may be. Your steps aren’t too tiresome, your laughter is light. Things are OK.

But then something shifts. And all of a sudden this fog settles in around you and you are searching, frantically, for your glasses, to try and clear this all up, when you realize you’re wearing them and they’re not doing shit. You panic for a moment before giving in, collapsing into the emptiness that’s swallowed everything about you. You get lost, and it becomes impossible to focus on any one thing because you can’t feel a damn thing besides this heavy, heavy dread that won’t stop dragging you down.

The worst feeling, you think, is how your feet haven’t even touched the ground yet, they haven’t felt anything, so you know there’s further to fall but you don’t know much longer you can go without air. The thought of another wave holding you down scares you, and you close your eyes before opening them to more nothingness. Tears start to well, your body unsure of what it can do anymore, when the energy is being pulled from every pore.

You lie there, shaking, until it ends, and it dumps you out where everything began to wait until it comes again.

Does that ever happen to you?