All of it is mere illusion. Nothing I say or do can in reality have any effect on any thing – it is all inconsequential. Seeming cause and effect repeats in endless cycles of useless drama that never finds resolve. All of it…shadows. How can there be any meaning to those shadows other than a hope to find what it is that casts them. Even then, where is the hope when you can’t even trust the very light that defines them? Time wasted. Effort wasted. Care wasted.

Therefore I withdraw. I withdraw from the illusion. I withdraw from the shadows. I withdraw from the drama. I withdraw…from it all.