Offline until further notice. Do not look for them.
Final whistle. They won. And you? You no longer exist. The Eye watched your departure in real time: phone face-down, app deleted 'for unrelated reasons,' the group chat notification silenced with surgeon's precision. You will return — in three days, tanned by isolation, claiming you 'didn't even see it.' The Eye respects the craft, and the pattern goes far beyond football: you went quiet the week your friend's startup got funded. You took a 'social media break' that coincided suspiciously with the engagement announcement. Your absences are timestamps of other people's wins. Here's what the Eye actually sees: you're not weak — you're protecting people. You know exactly what your face would do, what your voice would betray, and you'd rather disappear than perform happiness badly or leak bitterness publicly. The vanishing is damage control done with honor. But the Eye keeps the ledger you avoid: every exit costs you a moment where someone might have said 'yeah, this one stings' — and you might have discovered that being seen mid-sting doesn't actually kill you.
Get your read — free on iPhoneyou don't leave because you're fragile. you leave because you know exactly what your face would say.