“I’m tired, inevitably. But it’s more than that. I’m hollowed out. I’m tetchy and irritable, constantly feeling like prey, believing that everything is urgent and that I can never do enough. And my house—my beloved home—has suffered a kind of entropy in which everything has slowly collapsed and broken and worn out, with detritus collecting on every surface and corner, and I have been helpless in the face of it.” BurnoutWintering Book:Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“I want to disappear. I’m almost desperate to find a way to absent myself easily from the situation, like cutting around my outline with a craft knife and cleanly excising myself from the record.” BurnoutWintering Book:Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times