My life still moves, but I feel less and less inside the movement

Dear Delyara, That is the part that scares me. Not stopping. Drifting. I can still function. That’s what makes it easy to miss. But functioning is not the same as being fully present inside what I’m doing. Burnout has not made the structure collapse. It has made the structure continue with less soul in it. Days get done. Tasks get completed. And somewhere inside all that, I feel more absent than I used to. I don’t want to normalize that absence simply because it looks respectable from the outside.