The problem with a life altering experience is that when you go through it, you are in danger of not just losing your possessions that are material, but you can lose many things that you are greater than that. You can lose yourself and all of the mental and emotional parts of yourself. When I lost myself, I lost my drive. My independence, if I really had any, was truly gone. Without what regular people say as basic necessities, I did not want to be...