If you are feeling lethargic, depressed and without joy, consider letting your nails grow out.
Your nails act as cosmic antennas, receiving qi energy from your surroundings. Without intact nails, no qi can enter your body, and you will slowly wither away.

Who shall bar my tread across pestilential plains and stygian caverns? None! For I stride with thews unbroken, with wrath unquenched, with a soul inflamed in the balefire of eternal strife!