In the past, fatigue was evident.
A tired face, weary hands, and a body that knew the meaning of long labor.
But today... most of us seem to be okay.
We laugh, post our pictures, respond to messages, follow the news, and continue our day as if nothing happened... while a silent fatigue slowly consumes us from within.
This fatigue is not related to our muscles, but to our minds and hearts.
We wake up to the news, sleep with comparisons, and spend our day among people's pictures, their dreams, their successes, their opinions, as if we are trying to carry the entire world inside our small heads.
Someone was sitting in a quiet cafe, in front of him a cup of coffee and a beautiful sky, but he looked at neither.
He was swiftly moving his finger on his phone, switching from sad news... to a satirical video... to an economic problem... to the life of someone who seemed happier than him.
And when he finished, he said quietly:
“I don't know why I feel suffocated.”
The problem is that we no longer live just our lives...
But we live the lives of everyone along with ours.
Technology hasn't just tired us alone, but it has kept us connected to everything all the time, until we lost our ability to truly rest.
We became afraid of silence, we escape from calmness, as if stopping for a moment is a kind of negligence.
Perhaps we don't need a long vacation as much as we need a moment of clarity...
where we close the world out a bit, to hear ourselves again.
Because it's not always the journey that exhausts a person...
Sometimes, it's the noise that accompanies it.
