Your brain is infrastructure. Maintain it before it collapses.
There is a strange kind of pride in exhaustion.
We celebrate long hours and burnt coffee as if they were medals of honor, proof that our lives matter because they are overflowing.
Somewhere along the way, “busy” became a synonym for “important.”
It usually starts as a hum, a low, invisible vibration behind the temples.
Emails, meetings, deadlines, decisions.
All that movement feels productive until it starts to sound like static.
And by then, most people do not slow down. They double their speed, afraid to lose momentum.
The modern workplace has turned rest into a transaction.
It is something we earn after we have proven ourselves exhausted enough to deserve it.
A reward after the deadline, the deal, the crisis.
But that logic is backward and dangerous.
Rest is not indulgence. It is maintenance.
Your brain is infrastructure.
And like a bridge, it does not collapse because of one heavy truck. It collapses because no one closed it for repairs.
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