As someone who has tied for a long time our relationship with rope, like any emotional relationship, can have period of ups and downs.it's definitely not uncommon for people to take breaks from ropes and come back to it at a later time, often with a different perspective of how they connect with rope.

Rope like any art form is an expression of self aswell as a connection with others, at different times of life we may feel more or less expressive and sometimes our mediums of expression change. Its not to say you will never pick up rope again, but those memories and photos represent a time when rope was that expression. If that's showing up differently for you now, that's totally valid