Socially sad..

[gothic_incubus]

I attended a wake for a close relative recently.  I am amazed how socially crippled I've become.  I realized it was getting bad, but I can barely carry on a conversation with people.  I'm fine with close friends, but in instances where the person I am talking to is not well known to me, there are just lots of silent pauses.

I had no idea that my path in life would affect me and distance me from society.   I've always been the one at the edge of a party, observing rather than diving in, but now it's ten times as bad.