Get Sick

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that smart people are especially good at ignoring. It hides behind productivity. It dresses up as ambition. It learns to speak in the language of goals and optimization until you can barely hear the body underneath.

The body, meanwhile, is saying the same thing it has always said. It says: lie down. It says: go offline. It says: let it be.

We don't listen until we have to.