Things are starting to feel extremely unreal. I guess the truth is finally hitting me. I'd had been having a nagging feeling throughout the day.

I feel strangely.. abandoned. Left behind. Alone to shoulder a heavy load and to trek through a dark unknown.

My first reaction was panic. Then I reminded where I was. Things that had previously felt so familar had suddenly taken on alien characteristics. Very soon there'd be no more guidance. No more GPS. I'd be almost totally alone.

I must control this surge of irrational panic. Everything's much simpler without my brain messing it up and blowing it to epic proportions.

What's there to be afraid? This is life as it had been for the past year. Nothing in practice had changed.

But still, watching everyone taking their turns going off the common road, I can only clench my teeth and look down at my beaten shoes. This is my path. And I travel it alone.