💬 Quote
“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
— J.R.R. Tolkein, The Fellowship of the Rings (1954)
This is one of the best lines or descriptions I've ever read about burnout, overwhelm an exhaustion. I think about it a lot about this whenever I'm feeling particularly depleted. The last few weeks have been tiring. Late nights with work, the house renovation, side projects, family, life admin and van repairs.