A while ago, I filled in for someone who called in sick in mental health - they didn't have anybody to cover this new patient they were accepting and they were a kid and we had the extra staff. Anyway, sitting in that little room in silence was one of the best few hours of work I'd had in a while. One of the regulars came in to cover, finally, but they still needed 2. We sat together in total silence reading for an hour, I switched with someone from my unit, and when my coworker came back she talked about how horrible it was just sitting in silence lol. I got way too many people who always want my ear or my opinion or there's some proverbial fire to handle at work and then home everyone's yakking or I have some event or agreed to a presentation.

But that few hours in calm silence and peace was so sweet~

I do not get the people that find all the socializing stuff I have to do daily between work and home life as appealing. Put me back in a quiet room with no one else or at least someone who doesn't want to talk