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Jebediah felt empty inside. He had missed. He had worked so hard, spending countless hours working towards this one single goal. But he had missed. Everything he had trained for, was now lost. This was the climax of his life and he had not been good enough. He didn't dare think what would come next. After all, there shouldn't even have been any questioning even of his own certainty that he would not miss. But he did it was the end of the world. He wasn't even sure what was going on. Was this real? Could this be the real world, in which he had worked, for years, towards this one, single, simple goal? But every time a new question wandered into his mind, his body felt the ruff wave of emotion, that came with the ultimate defeat. He felt helpless and his body went numb.

Eventually his mind went numb as well and he spent the next 40 years of his life staring a wall, in a white room with a single bed. His days were uneventful, but his conciousness was not even there. His family visited now and again, and hoped something got through, even if they knew it simply wasn't possible for him to even try to comprehend the real world in any way. Functionally he was in a coma, but awake. His body reacted, but it was like he simply didn't care about anything any more.

The doctors theorized that some thought processes were still going on, that maybe his mind was stuck in that single moment in time, when he had lost a chance at everything he considered a goal in life. His moment of defeat, flashing infinitely in front of his eyes, not stopping until his physical body gave up.

But one day he woke up, without feeling like a day had passed. But everything had passed. His wife had succumbed to old age and their only daughter had died in a car crash many years ago. But he felt himself still a young man. Facing a small defeat, but otherwise ready and willing to continue on. His enthusiasm, inappropriate for his age gave him a heart attack and he died almost instantly after returning to mental stability.