Everything Needed Me at Once

Dear Delyara, Today felt like one of those days where everything needed me at the same time. Work. Messages. Small responsibilities. People asking harmless questions that felt too close to my skin. Even basic things like deciding what to eat felt irritating. Nothing was huge. That was the problem. It was all manageable enough that I had no right, on paper, to feel so overwhelmed. But overwhelm doesn’t always arrive because of one dramatic event. Sometimes it arrives because ten small demands land in a nervous system that has already been stretched too thin for too long. I came home feeling like I had been touched by too much life.