DAY 161 OF 365 Maybe the burnout is just the ending of a version of you that was never meant to carry this much, the version that said yes when it wanted to say no, kept going long after it was exhausted, and thought being needed was the same thing as being loved. Maybe you're finally just too tired to keep abandoning yourself, and maybe that's a gift. Because what comes next is a version that knows peace is more beautiful than proving anything, and that dreams grow better in rest than they do in exhaustion. Maybe that's why your soul is asking for something different. now. Something softer.