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The reasons I don't role-play, anymore.

1: I hate drama. Gaia is so damned full of drama because of little shits like this Sol Suicide kid and his little cult. They ruin it for everybody because they can't mind their own business and they feel the need to start trouble.
2: I'm not strong enough to keep breaking hearts all the time. I'm taken and there's someone I'm interested in should this relationship fail. I role-play a character who seems to be easy to fall for. Unfortunately, too many of you let your in-character emotions become your out-of-character emotions and I just can't handle it.
3: It isn't what it used to be. When I made my debut in the yahoo user chatrooms, not only was I the s**t but I had five other friends there who were variably as good or better. We were plot-writers and, when one of us had a story in mind, we played along and we stuck to it. We wrote what could've been top of the line books. Unfortunately, because it was a collaborative effort, publishing was impossible because royalties were too much of a hassle. Reason 3 is that I miss it and haven't found anybody to cooperate with me like they did.
4: I'm not as good as I used to be and it irritates me. I let myself get rusty and now I'm practically a "n00b" because I can't be bothered to try to get better.
5: I'm busy. I don't have as much free time as I used to. My cold is clearing and soon I'll be back to work and college. I don't like to start what I can't finish.
6: There are no "Happily Ever After"s. When you role-play with someone, they tend to have their own story to follow. You start writing your story and they start writing theirs and your endings don't match. So, you keep going until they do. But then someone else comes along and joins in with their own story to tell. It goes on like this until you forget your story or until someone disappears. So, you never get to your happily ever after. I specialize in happily ever afters. It frustrates me to never get to them.
7: My motivation to role-play has diminished almost to nothing. Partly because of all of these reasons and partly because of time. I've just grown disinterested in it over time.