Dear friends and associates,


I offer my sincere apologies for disturbing and troubling all of you. I was overreacting to a minor misunderstanding due to my strong self-effacing and self-doubting tendencies. Thankfully, a good friend of mine has recently helped me to be less hard on myself and be more aware of the less flattering aspects of the personality traits I have learned in my life experiences. My deepest thanks go out to him for this.

Many of you may wonder why it is that I have failed to be active on FA. Simply put, I joined FA to find friends, and, since I have accomplished said goal, I have little interest in this site anymore. I do wish that I was more active on here, and that I applied my time and energy to critique and comment on the many works and labors of my friends and associates, but I must be honest that I simply... "would rather not." It has come to my attention that I, like many, am affected by the chief cancer of this modern existence we all know: apathy.

It is, in-fact, what I have been putting my energies into lately: the study of this modern vexation, a very serious problem that could bring about the ruin of all that we know. I am aware that that is melodramatic, and would hardly register notice on a furry site, but I can assure you that this is something I mean very seriously when I say it: apathy will be the doom of the human race, and this world, if it is left unchecked. Therefore, I am now collecting my thoughts on this topic in the hopes that I can publish a work to bring attention to it. A strong grasp of language and compositional thought are some of the few assets I have available to combat this problem, and I am focusing all my effort into stopping it.

For many years now, I have felt something was deeply wrong with this world. Namely, the United States, but no person or country fails to be affected by the American superpower. It was only recently that I was able to put a name and face to this horror of the modern world, and, even though I know its causes, I am still struggling to find a solution. My advance apologies if I am largely unavailable for some time, as I find it hard to involve my self socially when I feel that the whole world stands upon the brink of its annihilation. I genuinely hope that what I have stated and expressed here does not sound ridiculous to you, and that you understand why I must pursue this duty with the solemn determination that I have elected to do so. I have finally found a purpose in my life. While helping and making joyous my friends and loved ones seemed to be it, I realized that that is but an extension of my true calling: helping mankind. Again, melodramatic, but all lifeforms' chief duty is the pursuit of its own well-being, and my empathic tendencies make me care greatly for the human race and this planet. Art, music, and all my other creative endeavors are now less than secondary compared to my need to help this self-destructive race we know as mankind. I wanted to create a series of stories to illustrate my thoughts and beliefs about the modern world, and why I see it as seriously twisted. But the situation is too dire and the hour is too late for petty fantasies. The phantasms that haunted my characters are real and threaten this entire world. Apathy, self-absorption, greed and the all-exclusive pursuit of individual pleasures threaten the whole of humanity, and I can no longer sit idle with my various forms of escapism when everyone and everything is threatened by these vexations. I care far too much and know I am capable of too much to watch while the world slides into an abyss and collapses into dissolution.

Again, my apologies for having disturbed all of you previously, and my apologies if I again disturb you know. But I do honestly believe that we should all be disturbed by the course our world has taken, and how very close we are to our edge of ruin.


Sincerely,
-M.