There’s a kind of emotional fatigue no one warns you about. The kind that doesn’t come from your own life, but from carrying the weight of everyone else’s. News. Crisis. Updates. All the time.
You think awareness is the responsible thing. But eventually, something shifts. You stop reacting. Not because you don’t care, but because there’s nowhere left to put the caring.
I found a reflection that put that feeling into words. It doesn’t offer solutions. Just resonance.
Have you felt this kind of quiet saturation? When your empathy doesn’t disappear, it just stops fitting inside you?
I’m going through this right now. It’s like I’ve reached the point of burn out where I can’t handle one more podcast, one more video, one more article, one more opinion. It’s not that I don’t care, it’s that I care very deeply and lost the ability to cope with that and then hit a wall where I need absolute silence to recover.