A Broken Shell....

I keep getting this image in my mind.......... you hear people say "I'm a shell of what I used to be." So I keep getting this bizarre image of myself. I look like a giant eggshell. Ridiculous, isn't it? A huge egg with arms and legs sticking out. (no head for some reason, I guess the egg is my head AND torso, a la humpty dumpty -- except I have no face). I'm standing at the kitchen sink washing dishes. I do not know why I picture myself doing this mundane task while I look so bizarre........ but, I digress. Someone (who?) comes up to me, barely gives me a tap on what-should-be-my-shoulder, and it makes a crack. I stand there in horror and stillness as the crack gets larger, expanding, making that awful sound as the shell is broken into a million pieces that now lay crumbled on the floor where I was standing only a moment ago. And that's all that's left, tiny pieces of shell.