Is it normal to feel this tired all the time?

You have been tired so long that the tiredness has become invisible to you — just the water you swim in, the way you assume adult working life simply feels. But stop and question that assumption, because it is doing a lot of quiet damage. Constant exhaustion is common, yes. That does not make it normal, and it certainly does not make it fine. What has happened is that your baseline has drifted. Depletion crept up so gradually that it started to look like your resting state, and now you measure everything from a starting point that is already worn down. When exhaustion becomes the floor you stand on, you lose the ability to notice how depleted you actually are — and you stop expecting anything better. Test the assumption. Ask yourself when you last felt genuinely rested, and if the answer is hard to find, take that seriously. This week, protect one real stretch of recovery — a full night, an untouched evening, a day without the low hum of work — and notice how you feel after. That contrast is the information. You may find that "just life" was never supposed to feel like this.