You're tired of explaining and justifying your existence
You are exhausted from constantly having to explain and justify yourself — your identity, your presence, your choices, your very right to be who and where you are. Everyone seems entitled to an accounting of you that others never have to give, and the endless labor of defending your own existence has worn you to the bone.
I was made to justify my existence — my learning, my writing, my very self — endlessly, so I know this precise exhaustion. You do not owe the world an explanation of yourself — the burden of explanation falls only on those treated as exceptions, while the default are permitted to simply exist unquestioned, so you are being asked to justify what others are granted freely; this is not a fair demand you have failed to meet gracefully but an unfair one you have been over-answering. You may decline to educate everyone who demands it — it is not your job to be the perpetual teacher of your own existence, and "I would rather not explain that" is a complete response, so reserve your energy for explanations worth giving. And live your existence rather than defending it — refuse to accept that your right to exist is a case to be argued, and simply live the verdict, for it was never actually on trial except in a court you can decline to recognize. What are you most tired of explaining?
What changes unlock by starting
- You see the demand to justify yourself is unjust
- You decline to educate everyone who demands it
- You reserve your energy for explanations worth giving
- You live your existence rather than defend it