Failing in being alive

Do people understand that when you say “I’m tired” it doesn’t mean “I didn’t get enough sleep last night” or “I need more physical energy”?

Human beings are not ontologically designed for seamless satisfaction. At most, we experience moments, periods, or spurts of satisfaction (jouissance). Instead of the kind of wholeness and plenitude that we may fantasize about, a buried brokenness of being constitutes the status quo of our lives. Many of us are experts at hiding or ignoring this reality, frequently by filling our lives with so many practical preoccupations that we do not have the time or mental space to pay attention to the ontological void within our being. Nonetheless, there are moments of crises – sudden tears in the normal fabric of our lives – when this void leaps to the forefront of our consciousness, often ushering us to a melancholy crypt of despair that can be difficult to climb out of.

I have always felt lonely. But I think it's a specific kind of loneliness.

being depressed emotionally but not mentally is. weird

Do people understand that when you say “I’m tired” it doesn’t mean “I didn’t get enough sleep last night” or “I need more physical energy”?