It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
What we do to enable our existence simultaneously undermines our existence...
The State of Israel is not collapsing and will not collapse.
As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.
Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.