I nearly answered honestly and then used the smaller word

Dear Delyara, Someone asked how I was and the truthful answer was too large for the moment. So I used a smaller word. “Tired.” And maybe that was partly true. But it wasn’t the whole thing. I think I keep hiding whole emotional rooms inside socially efficient words because I’m too tired to build the full bridge from feeling to explanation. Then I wonder why I feel unseen. Maybe because I keep giving people the manageable version of me and grieving when they only meet that version.