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Student @ Ahmadu Bello University Zaria
FUNCTIONING ON 40%
<p><br/></p><p>There’s this new thing we do where we treat tired like it’s a personality.</p><p>Every day, someone says, “I’m exhausted,” and it’s not about lack of sleep. It’s just… the default setting. We laugh about it, tweet it, post it, stitch it into memes—“I need a nap,” “I need a break,” “I need ten business days to recover from existing.”</p><p>And it’s funny, kind of… but also weird.</p><p>Because it’s not burnout from some grand tragedy. It’s not depression (at least not for everyone). It’s not the dramatic film version of suffering. It’s just… a quiet, never-ending fatigue that people sort of wear like an oversized sweater. Soft, casual, and socially acceptable.</p><p>Nobody talks about it because it doesn’t scream. It doesn’t look serious. We still go to class, show up to work, answer messages, take pictures with friends. We perform life like normal. But underneath, there’s this subtle, collective sigh—like we’re all slightly older than we should be at our age.</p><p>What’s wild is, we don’t even pause to ask “why?”</p><p>Why does being alive at 20 feel like being 40?</p><p>Why does every group chat have someone typing “tbh I’m tired” for the 100th time?</p><p>Why does the weekend feel like a charging cable that only goes up to 40%?</p><p><br/></p><p>No one calls it a problem because we’re still functioning.</p><p>No one calls it normal because it feels weird.</p><p>So it just sits there, in the middle, noticed, but not understood.</p><p>Maybe it’s the world being loud.</p><p>Maybe it’s the pace.</p><p>Maybe it’s the doom headlines.</p><p>Maybe it’s the pressure to be better, faster, prettier, smarter.</p><p>Or maybe it’s just life and we’re the first generation that speaks about it instead of pretending.</p><p>Either way, it’s real.</p><p>Not terrible.</p><p>Not tragic.</p><p>Just there—like background noise.</p><p>And I think that counts as something.</p>
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