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Hi, celia16 (@celia16)
What a lovely to put it: "I didn’t have the bandwidth to entertain." If I'm to be honest, I've never had the bandwidth to entertain! My friends (when we do get together) tease me about this. I've spent most of my working life as a stage actor, performing in front of hundreds and sometimes thousands of people. My friends think I should be at ease with bunches of people––dinner parties, group get-togethers, big social occasions of every kind. But I'm not. When I'm not working (and this goes back decades, long, long before Covid), you'd find me spending my "off-duty" hours alone or with one, maybe two (at most) friends. That's been "me" all of my life, since childhood. It was only the "enforced" isolation of my recent prolonged hospitalization that has made me hunger for friends' company––I hunger one moment, next I cancel, then I regret, wondering why on earth I canceled. Crazy, I know. 🙂
Cheers!
Ray (@ray666)