Stressed Out (But Not Burnt Out)

Treading the line between “a lot” and “too much.”

Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day
Published in
4 min readApr 17, 2024

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A man sits in a booth. He is looking at his laptop, which has numerous stickers on it, with a concerned look on his face> His hand is on his head, fingers intertwined in his hair. He appears stressed out.
Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash

Recently, a friend asked me how work was going. I started to launch into a description of what’s going on — the fact that it’s the busy season for me, the fact that I have help now, and other minutiae of my day job. However, after starting and then stopping, I instead summed it up with a simple phrase:

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Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day

I write about everything from my experience with mental illness to politics to philosophy. Much of my so-called "wisdom" is from Tumblr dot com. He/him/his.