My UI is disappearing

My UI is disappearing.

That eternal interface between me and the world. The one that tells me where I am, what I need to be doing, what I have, what is effecting me and what my status is - actually it tells me everything I need to know about me and my environment. And it is disappearing.

All that is remaining behind is me. And the world around me.

And it is terrifying.

What the hell am I doing here? What am I meant to be doing here? Where the hell am I?

For so long I have become accustomed to interacting with my UI. I have customised it and added a bunch of mod and add-ons that have made it easier to play the game. Hot keyed spells, macroed actions, an infinite stream of data about targets/enemies/myself, inventories, maps and quest logs. I haven't even had to think about playing. Stimulus - response. UI tells me mana is low - I drink potion. UI tells me enemy player has buff - I disenchant. UI tells me enemy player's health is low - I smash until they are dead. I have become so used to my interface that I have stopped playing in the world and have completely been playing with my UI. In fact I am beginning to wonder who was really playing the game - me or my UI?

And now it is disappearing.

It is a strange thing to be with no purpose. To have no comparitive statistical ability or an inventory of what items I have does not seem to bother me that much. These things used to be important to me but without my UI I couldn't care less. But my inability to know either where I am or where I am going has left me a bit unsettled. It is much like sitting in front of Google and saying "Okay what can I search for?". Well, anything really. Too many options are crippling. Ask any artist or writer about how terrifying a blank page can be. The only way to overcome that is to put pen to paper and draw/write anything. Scribble. Doodle. Write a grocery list. Anything. And eventually you may be inspired to write a sentence or draw an outline that becomes a scene which is filling up with details and hey presto, you are on your way again.

So without my UI I can stand here and slowly disappear.
Or I can pick a direction and press 'w'.

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