What to Say When You're Done, But You Still Have to Show Up Tomorrow
There's a specific kind of tired that has nothing to do with sleep. It's the tired that shows up in your chest right before a meeting you didn't ask to be in. The tired that makes you reread the same email for the fourth day in a row, still unsent, because you don't have the words yet. The tired of hearing your boss say "teamwork" one more time while you quietly calculate how many more of these conversations you can survive without saying something you'll regret. You're not burned out in the dramatic, collapse-on-the-floor sense. You're just done, in the quiet way. And the inconvenient truth about being done is that you still have to show up tomorrow. The job doesn't pause because you're depleted. The meetings keep getting scheduled. The emails keep needing replies. Nothing about your actual circumstances changes just because you've run out of patience for pretending they're fine. Why "Just Say What You Feel" Doesn't...
