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why do i want friends but dont want to spend time with them.

Aging Well | Last Active: Nov 25 12:45pm | Replies (54)

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@celia16

Maybe the health crisis you had is still impacting your bandwidth. Just something to consider. Health crisis can take a toll.

I recall how a dental crisis I had last year really affected me. I realize it doesn’t sound like much, but it was very painful, stressful and sustained over a few weeks. (I had a filling overfilled, which caused damage to an existing crown over a root canal, resulting in wisdom tooth and molar extraction, root canal and bone graft). Had to see multiple specialists and was very expensive. My stress went out the roof. After all was done, I felt like I had PTSD. No disrespect for those who actually have PTSD. I understand that many others have life threatening conditions like sepsis, cancer, heart dysfunction, etc. and I understand my dental trauma was not in the same league….still….I understand how that trauma can leave you emotionally and mentally drained. I stayed nervous and unsettled for months. I didn’t have the bandwidth to entertain. I wonder if this might be the kind of thing that makes you forego the guests.

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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)