Immediate cessation

You ever notice that sometimes (when things seem to be falling apart at break-neck speed, and you can't seem to go more than a few hours without something breaking down, catching fire, going pear shaped or sinking into the quicksand) that sometimes everything just stops?

Real sudden like.

Not the panicked screeching halt you would get from standing on the breaks and locking up all four.

Not even the five frame wind down you would get by hitting pause on your DVD player.

An instantaneous complete stop.

As if God or the universe or whoever just inserted an  *all stop*   into the text of your life.

Damned disconcerting.

A little taste of mortality to season the daily bullshit.