The tide goes out so far it looks gone. Then it comes back like it always does.

Low stretches present themselves as permanent, and that presentation is part of what makes them low. Once something has receded far enough, the mind stops treating it as a phase and starts treating it as the new shape of things. The recession is real, but the permanence is a trick of standing in the middle of it.

While you are at a low point, be careful about the conclusions you draw there. Postpone the large decisions and keep the small structures running. You are a poor judge of the long run from the wet sand.