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I think it was a combination of many things – my work has been reorganized twice in the past 2 years, with three rounds of layoffs (didn’t impact me, but many people I know), I had emergency surgery (went well, and I’m doing fine but it took me 6 months to get back to my regular energy level, day to day), started cooking/exercising more to focus on health which took some of my free time. I also think at the time I put my guitar down I had been in a plateau and not seeing a lot of progress so it was harder to motivate myself on the days I could practice.
To be honest, I picked my guitar up a bit in January after the 1.5 yr break, but lost focus again and am hoping to re-build the practice for the rest of May. I think once the habit is formed, I really find a lot of joy in guitar, but between habit cycles, I tend to feel too tired to pick it up.