Ruined Spring House

It's curious what remains when all else is gone. Consider this ruined spring house, the last surviving vestige of some long ago farm. Is there anyone left who remembers where the barn once stood? The farmhouse? Was it a dairy farm or grain? Only the spring house remains, guarding its secrets fast.

Once, long ago, you developed behaviors and attitudes to help you deal with situations in your life--threats or factors both real and imagined. Those "situations" have long since resolved themselves or simply fled, but the behaviors have remained; they've become "postures" for living. They derive their identity and usefulness from long-vanished threats--real or imagined. Like the spring house, there they sit. Unlike the spring house, you visit them each day, and they're as comfortable as an old boot.