Whether you are a parent juggling work and childcare, a young adult trying to stay afloat, or a professional sustaining a side hustle alongside a full time job, weariness seems to have become our shared language. Increasingly, the reflexive answer to “How are you?” is a single word: exhausted.
In an age of convenience, comfort and technology, it is clear to see that the exhaustion crisis is not only physiological, but cultural. Ever since Thomas Edison’s invention of the practical light bulb in 1879, which freed human activity from the solar cycle, we have gradually detached our daily rhythms from nature’s rhythms, but at what cost?
