You can go to Mass and not take Communion, do you know that at one time people were so in tune with the truth of the Eucharist that they would not take Communion because they did not feel worthy of it? The Church had to insist that you had to take it at least at Christmas and Easter.
Communion is not a communal thing, believe it or not. Not in the true sense of "we the people". For a Catholic you are literally entering into a union that is so intensely intimate, that if you think about it to much, you'd not be able to do it.
Excellent point! Holy Communion is about entering into an intimate union (or communion) with Christ. It is only a communal thing insofar as those who have entered into this intimate union with Christ are thereby in communion with each other.