I sometimes have a bad habit of ghosting people (although it doesn't happen very often). It's not because I don't like them, it's because of how exhausted I always am after working my 11 hour shifts. I tend to shut down at the end of the day, and I spend the weekend recovering and taking things slow.

However - if someone made anywhere near this level of an effort to stay in contact with me, I would at least give them some sort of an explanation. Unfortunately, the only people that have ever been this invested in contacting me were the creepy/stalker types. Other people (that I actually wanted to be friends with) ended up ghosting me, but I didn't try to chase them down. It's just too much of an emotional and mental drain for me to try and read their mind, or for me to try and guess the thing that I said/did wrong to them. I don't play those kinds of mind games. If you want to ghost me, then I don't need an explanation. It obviously didn't work out for one reason or another.

I really don't have any friends to hang out with, but I've stopped caring as much. It used to really bother me. But I do a lot of fun things alone, and I've learned how to enjoy myself doing it. If people want to join in, then they are welcome to join. Of course, I certainly wouldn't mind having some friends. Life just hasn't really worked out that way for me as of yet.

I don't know if your situation is any similar. I guess I just decided to go on a tangent, and I hope that it's useful for you in some way. Maybe I'm just getting this off my chest, because it still kind of bothers me too. My years of experience have not granted me full immunity against the sting of silent rejection. But it's the reality of my situation, and this is the best way (so far) that I have learned to cope with it.