Once a choir girl, always a choir girl?

Going back and forth with trying to decide whether to continue singing in the choir (after over 5 years), I've been thinking about the significance of the group. It's interesting to see how the dynamic of a social group never seems to be stagnant. Maybe it's the student group nature of the choir, people coming and going, but in any case, in the past five years there have been many different "seasons." I guess I have to admit that it is a kind of second family to me. You don't always love them but cannot seem to get rid of them either... ;)

While I'd like to see something else for a change - or even go back to playing the violin for a while - I'm not sure if I'm ready to leave the community. Last night at our birthday gala I was so touched to watch a man probably in his 70s or 80s sing along old favorites. He knew them by heart, and although his voice was that of an old man, he sure had passion... How great would it be to attend the 90th birthday (in 45 years) and be able to participate in that cross-generational feeling of unity?