The cost of keeping up

There’s some­thing deeply in­con­ve­nient about be­ing ex­haust­ed when your life is go­ing well.

Re­cent­ly, I went to take a nap and woke up four hours lat­er. At some point be­tween clos­ing my eyes and wak­ing up con­fused about what day it was, my body had ap­par­ent­ly de­cid­ed that what­ev­er plans I had could wait.

No­body tells you that good things can wear you out. We talk about the ex­haus­tion that comes with grief, stress, heart­break and bad news. We un­der­stand be­ing tired when some­thing has gone wrong. But some­times life can be full of things you love and still leave you com­plete­ly wrung out.