Bill,

I have spent many a year where the only person who heard me play and sing was me. I go through a significant physical change whenever I pick up an strum a guitar. I cannot explain it, but clearly the playing does something to me.

Certainly music is a form of communication, so there is joy in sharing it with others, but one can "commune' with oneself as well.

So even if you were a hermit in a cave in the high Himalayas I would encourage you to keep on playing (change the strings once a year whether it's needed or not).

And as others have said, if there are grand children, sing to them. It is one way of sharing yourself when you share your love of music and song.

Keep on singing.

Roger in Baltimore