Leo
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
Robin Williams
The skill you have not touched in months still lives in your hands, but returning to it means admitting how much you have let slide in the service of keeping other people comfortable. You stopped playing music or writing letters or building things with your hands not because you lost interest, but because the people around you needed you to be available in ways that left no room for the thing that made you feel most like yourself. The cost of coming back to it is not the rust or the relearning. The cost is discovering how much of your attention you gave away to people who never asked what you might need to keep for yourself.