If everything feels pointless lately —
you’re not depressed.
You may be in existential fatigue.
🧠 Existential fatigue is the burnout of the soul:
✧ When the pressure to extract purpose from everything becomes its own form of oppression
✧ When even healing starts to feel like a full-time job
✧ When we confuse constant self-improvement with identity
This often links to narrative addiction:
✧ The belief that everything must lead somewhere
✧ That your life must have an arc, a climax, a takeaway
✧ That stillness = failure, and presence = laziness
🌪️ Over time, this creates identity detachment:
✧ You become the storyteller, not the human
✧ You perform reflection instead of living it
✧ You forget what rest without guilt even feels like
💡 So what’s the “solution”?
Not another self-bettering project.
Just this:
✧ Let it be meaningless.
✧ Let the breath in be enough.
✧ Let the exhale count as living.
You don’t have to make this moment worth something.
You’re already here.
That’s what matters.
✧ soft anchor:
You are not a project.
You are not a purpose machine.
You are allowed to just exist.
🌒 return to the stillness:
→ read: maybe none of this means anything
→ reflect: existing isn’t a failure
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