multiple choice.

What is the definition of being numb?

is it plunging your hand into a bucket of ice and water and experiencing 30 seconds of extreme acute pain followed by...nothingness?

is it the feeling you get when you've lost all ability to care? try as you might, as you dredge up the bottom-most recesses of what used to be your heart yet something (anything) fails to surface?

is it thinking that you've gone through the worst possible situations that can be thrown at you and blinding yourself into a false sense of security when suddenly something blows over and you're back at the trough?

is it analogous to the sensation of someone using the back of a pen and slowly carving and digging an abscess on the left-side of your chest? chip-chip-chipping away while you just stand there helpless and unfeeling...watching them work at it without protest?

is it curling up into a ball on a chair and staring into space while you're detached from the world around you?

i'm just being curious, you know...cos if it happens to me, i'd like to be mentally-prepared.