Who carries it when I'm the one everyone leans on?

You can quiet a room with a look. You can sit with a child's worst week and not flinch. That is a skill. You built it. But a skill is not a drain pipe. What you absorb does not vanish because you stayed steady. It goes somewhere. Usually it goes into you, alone, after the room empties. You may have colleagues you like, even love. But liking people is not the same as having a structure built to carry weight back. Most staff rooms exist for logistics, not for this. So the hardest moments pile up in you, unclaimed, because no system ever asks for them. This is not fixed by trying harder alone, or waiting for someone to notice you're tired. It is fixed by building, with others, a deliberate place to set this down — on a schedule, with people who carry weight too. If the weight ever feels too heavy for any pod to hold, say that plainly and find someone trained to help carry it. That is not weakness. That is sense.