Spoiler alert: I am going to give away the ending.
In the end of Germinal, the guy whose pet rabbit was killed and eaten gets revenge by imploding the mine. I was just thinking that I am a lot like that guy, and the rabbit is a lot like my bike. A few weeks ago I would have considered blowing up my company, but now I am in a mode where I am just excited to get out. I wonder what would have happened had I gone out with a big explosion. Sometimes I wish I could view alternate endings to things, not so much as a product of regret, but as an offshoot of curiosity.