More than all that, I’d discovered how quickly the vision of total reinvention can dissolve into its lonely, mundane reality. Whatever reason you might have for discarding your old self and the people who went with it, you’ll need more than a made-up backstory and a belt full of cash to replace them.

— Evan Ratliff via Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened | Vanish | Wired.com