sad to say, I don’t socialize anymore basically at all.
it started with some physical problems that kept me more homebound (I had double knee replacements 6 1/2 yrs ago, & have some back problems), but now it’s become more of a lazy mindset. possibly, a little depression?
I don’t like to talk on the phone, either. nor correspond by e-mail.
my husband tries to get me to attend simchas (weddings/bar mitzvahs/brissim) of people who he knows (from shul, distant Chassidishe cousins) but I don’t attend; I will attend affairs of people who I care about.
a friend will call & invite me, last minute, to meet her on the Avenue for pizza or lunch, & I’ll decline; an old friend from the past will want to meet up & that I will do.
I do attend all immediate family get togethers, & my children, & grandchildren come over to my house veryy often.
I babysat my grandchildren for the last 6 yrs. daily, Mon.-Thurs. plus if necessary (for as long as 12 hrs, no less than 6 hrs a day); now that the youngest, 3 yrs. old ka’h, is in school, I’m ‘retired’, but almost never say ‘no’ when needed.
seems like the only places I go nowadays is to physical therapy twice a wk, & to doctors’ app’ts.
I’m not elderly by any means.. I’m only 59.
I ‘socialize’ on Facebook & now here in the CR, for more hours than I care to disclose @ this time. … hence, my screen name.
tha-tha-tha-that’s all, folks! 🙂