How to Become Irrelevant (Recipe for Nonpsychotic Dissociation)

Yield: One Serving

Ingredients: A Tablespoon of Loose Memory, 200g Dried Friends, Some Free-Range Distance

  A recipe I discovered some time ago. 

It took years of experience,

 but I finally have mastered it and decided to 

cobble together some instructions. 

With quite simple ingredients you can

 make an exquisitely rich and elegant plate of

loneliness, or solitude if you like.

First step is a change in geography

Readying your luggage, don't forget

Not to leave any emotional baggage

Be content with what you left behind

And let them cherish in their zone of comfort

To become forgettable

Then slowly drift away from the minds

And memories of the ones you loved

No story you partook back then

Has any consequences

Let them stay where they mattered

And free your loved ones from a burden

To become forgotten

Getting scraped off from the tabula

Of your dear acquaintances

Will be difficult as it is

But the most important step in the process of insignificance

Is getting used to having no bonds whatsoever

To the crowd which once was your habitat of excellence

As you start to lose your relevance

Before serving, acknowledge

That no present action you might take

Will have any mark on the value

Of your presence

Even though they might light the night ahead of daylight

Your deeds will not be welcomed with reverence

Everything in your once beloved haven

Will become indifferent

This will be the final phase of

Becoming irrelevant