I was once a pretty fair picker but in the last 20 years or so I have gone through periods where I stopped for months on end. I didnt get excited about it as I knew that it would only take a couple of weeks to be back to where I was. Sometimes months turned into years as it has this time and although I am now back at it again, I find that the mind has failed me. I have forgotten so much music that I once played. If I could remember it, I could play it. So that is a side that I never even thought about. So I guess this time I'd better not stop again.