In life you can have long fallow periods, times when your life is a struggle, where you aren’t getting all you want and don’t feel you will anytime soon. Perhaps some of us feel our entire lives are like that. Sometimes it can be difficult to imagine a moment where that ends, where you suddenly emerge from the blackness into the sunlight, where you accomplish what you set out to do, where you are suddenly free or safe, or somehow liberated from the chains of your previous state of being.

What a world that is. To wit: