Thanks for sharing.

I completely can understand how much you can miss people in this silence.

And yet I was myself SO surprised to realise that I needed it. I needed the silence around me. It felt like such a blessing for me to enter these 10 days of nothingness but my own head. It was hard though, for sure. But not at any moment did I feel I was doing the wrong thing.

Everyone has very different experiences of these retreats. The days are all the same and yet each individual has a very unique reception of them. I find it fascinating.

Sending metta :)