I feel like I’m still showing up, but only in outline

Dear Delyara, Burnout has made me strangely good at looking present while feeling thinned out. The outline is there. The schedule. The responses. The functioning. The normal enough version of me that can still participate in life. But the fullness is reduced. Less spark, less texture, less internal arrival. That’s what scares me most — not that life stops, but that I can keep going while feeling less and less fully inside it. It makes me wonder how many adults are living like this and calling it normal because the structure still stands. I don’t want to call it normal anymore.