Doing more will not get you out of burnout
The approach that got you here — push harder, optimise, add a routine — is the exact approach that keeps you here.
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Everyone is hiding. That’s the joke.
You think you’re the only one in the room wearing a mask.
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The distraction economy wants you exactly this exhausted
Everything you reach for at 10pm was designed by someone who studied what you do at 10pm.
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Are you doing life, or is life being done to you?
Same week, same fights, same Sunday.
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The freedom was always yours to take
Squashed as a child. Rebelling ever since. And still not free.
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Lonely in a house full of people who love you
You’re not lonely because nobody’s there.
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You cannot explain yourself into being understood
You’ve rewritten the explanation forty times.
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When one of you changes
You started getting better. Your relationship got harder.
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Raising children while healing yourself is the hardest job on earth. Say it out loud.
They will press every button you didn’t know you still had.
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The clue is in the word sacrifice
Fourteen hours in front of a screen for your family is not for your family.