there's a specific kind of tired that no amount of sleep fixes, and i kept trying to caffeine and willpower my way through it like that was a personality trait worth having. burnout isn't the system breaking down. it's the system finally speaking clearly enough that you can't pretend not to hear it anymore. the signal was always there. i just needed to stop calling it weakness.
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