From the archive

Are you tired, or do you hate living like this?

Tiredness can be ordinary tiredness. Sleep deprivation, workload, illness, caring for loved ones: these are real, and no impressive line about hating your life replaces sleep, support, or medical care. But sometimes you're perfectly capable of spending hours on something else. Talking, walking across town, assembling furniture, solving a problem that interests you. It's another work chat, where you have to perform interest again, that you have no energy for.