You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around.
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.