We do not celebrate people who rest well. We celebrate the ones who stay late. Who reply at midnight. Who take the call on their day off. Who are always available, always producing, always one more thing further than everyone else. We call it dedication. We call it work ethic. We quietly admire it even when we know it is costing them something significant. And then we are surprised when they burn out. Burnout is not a personal failure. It is a predictable outcome of a system that was designed to extract as much as possible from people while offering as little structural support as possible in return. A system that treats rest as a reward rather than a requirement. That mistakes endurance for strength. That has no off switch and expects the people inside it to compensate for that with their own bodies and minds. You did not fail the system. The system failed you. It just did it so gradually and so consistently that it started to look like your fault. It was not your fault. 🌿 #Mission #MentalHealthTogether #MHT #RunningOnEmpty #Burnout #TheFinishLineThatKeepsMoving #SystemNotYou