no one talks about the personality shift as you get older. where you no longer want to be impressive, you want to be rested. you want to be regulated and completely unavailable to anything that drains you
the best thing a therapist ever told me is “you’re not lazy, you only have a certain amount of energy and right now you’re using it all to survive” and i know someone else needs to hear that too
Before you go to bed tonight remember that there is no need to be stressed. You are okay. You have time to slow down and calculate your next steps. Your whole life is still ahead of you. You got this.