Quote "GUEST Peter Laban - What is the point of your question ? Are you suggesting people should NOT do what they want to do or what ?"

Wow, how did we get there?

Should you be coerced into playing? Perhaps sometimes, perhaps to the people that matter in your life.

It's nobody else's business but yours. I play mostly and most freely to/for myself. I don't regard that as:

a) Selfish
b) Quirky
c) Reclusive
d) Falsely modest
e) Any other reason

I just do. I've taken to popping down the local folk club from time to time and now enjoy playing to this little group - something I've not done for 25 years or so.

Play publicly if you want to and don't if you're unhappy about it. Your choice, and you really don't have to justify the execution of said choice.