One of the dangers of extended periods of adversity is that the notion of what it is to continue, the disk-image for the operating system, as it were, can become the general, false, schein-based received notion of life, rather than life as you had been living it, which was largely in reaction to such notions.
This is why it is good to keep in mind the things that you've done in reaction to the general notion of how things are.
For example. Graduation from the JD was at Lincoln Center. Due largely to accidents of history, I had no friends among the faculty there, but such moments are sill important. Rental gowns were expensive, and basically plastic bags with some trimmings. As the garment district was an easy walk away, I just picked up some decent zegna wool, cheap satin, and some sewing supplies, ordered a pattern for a church choir-robe, and altered it based on photos from a Harvard commencement. Cut and stiched it by hand while listening to freeware bar review tapes. Turned out rather well.
I had hoped to hold onto it for future use, but had to reduce to a knapsack not long afterwards. Perhaps a bit like the ancient Japanese wooden temples completely rebuilt at periodic intervals to precisely the same specifications. The platonic form endures, and with it perhaps the notion of platonic form.
Sufficient is the day.