The Fragment
This fragment was inked on handmade cotton paper and wax-sealed.
It carries the ache of narrative disconnection—and the first breath of reconnection.
This isn’t just fatigue.
It’s forgetting the role you were born to play.
Status: Thun, Switzerland
Location: found
Date of creation: 2025-05-23
Date placed: 2025-09-04
Code: 2505030
Rarity: Singular Artifact
The Visible Thread
Burnout doesn’t always look like collapse.
Sometimes, it looks like fog.
Like your to-do list still gets done,
but you no longer recognize the person checking the boxes.
You don’t feel tired.
You feel gone.
Not low energy,
low meaning.
As if the thread you were following just… slipped.
And no one noticed it but you.
You try to rest, but rest doesn’t land.
You look at your life, and it feels like someone else’s script.
Familiar scenes.
No protagonist.
People say, “Take a break.”
But from what, exactly,
when you no longer know where the story left off?
Reflections from the Weaver
This is the kind of burnout I never learned to name.
Not just tiredness.
Not just stress.
But the feeling of evacuation.
The sense that your life is happening, but your self isn’t in it.
I wrote this fragment as a marker—
for those who wonder if they’ve vanished.
Who want to come back, but don’t know where from.
It doesn’t offer answers.
But it names the fog.
And sometimes, that’s the first light through.
Related Lore
This artifact is woven from a deeper thread, also found in this article:
Why You’re Not Broken for Wanting a Meaningful Life
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Filed in the Living Lore Archive by the Weaver of Stories.
This is one of a limited number of handwritten narrative fragments released into the world. Some are rare. Some carry messages… some might be meant for you.