I always feel out of place in informal situations, everything from conference dinners to important social functions particularly when I’m required to address the part in a suit and tie.

In these situations, my clothes always feel uncomfortable and I’m always worried that my belt is going to let go and my trousers are going to fall at least feel loose and threatening to do so.

With the passing of the years, my aversion to formality has reached a point where I no longer go out to any function requiring me to enter this field of personal discomfort. 

These situations seem to me to me and to feel unnatural. As a retiree, it’s no longer beholden upon me do I have to go out very often in this formal way. In fact, in the last five years I’ve only been out in the formal context twice and on both occasions I was just ever so glad when the functions were over and I could come home and relax.

Formality makes me feel very uncomfortable indeed. That has been the case for the whole of my life. And it doesn’t get any better with age.