I'm glad to hear you got up from grey boring life you used to live, it's so important to go out and be with other people and see new places and basically all the things you enlisted in your post, thanks for sharing your story and hopefully the text helps someone who might feel like you did before.
Of course we all have our periods when we are feeling down or just wanna lock ourselves away but the answer isn't always to do how you feel like doing.
Steem on my friend!
thank you @jerry12 for your good comment and support.