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b. he felt forced into making a medicine
The lines that describe the decline and fall of the city are the following:
- These wall-stones are wondrous — calamities crumpled them, these city-sites crashed, the work of giants corrupted.
- The roofs have rushed to earth, towers in ruins.
- The halls of the city once were bright: there were many bath-houses, a lofty treasury of peaked roofs, many troop-roads, many mead-halls filled with human-joys until that terrible chance changed all that.
- Days of misfortune arrived—blows fell broadly—
death seized all those sword-stout men—their idol-fanes were laid waste —the city-steads perished.
- This place has sunk into ruin, been broken into heaps,
Well, it's a subjective thing. For me this type of attack ain't leads to a better life because after that it will take form of some kind of phobia which will inhibit further growth in that direction.
Posttraumatic growth is a kind of development take place after a sudden attack on life. In a very narrow cases this type of growth is seen but in most of them it is life threatening.
I believe it's true. If not I am sorry have a great day