if it weren't for golf here & lawn-bowling in AZ i'd have very little contact with people.
when i was younger & drinking i would go to bars, play pool & sometimes get into arguments which resulted in fights.
i do kinda miss those days. it's like when i was in the Navy we'd go ashore with enough money to know that we were going to get really smashed & maybe lucky with a girl. but the biggest thing was the sense of adventure.

Social belonging? What kind of sorcery is this?

I belong to a bunch of dance meet up groups, a couple of music groups, and an atheist group.

I attend Buddhist meetings weekly and I pay my therapist to listen to me for an hour on Thursdays. That's it.

I attend a Unitarian Universalist . It gives me a sense of community and my granddaughter loves it.