The exhaustion of maintaining a version of yourself that other people still believe in after you have already stopped believing in it yourself. Not ordinary burnout. The specific cost of performing an identity that has become familiar to everyone except the person still forced to inhabit it.
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Everyone still loved the version of him he used to be. He still smiled the same way, told the same stories, played the same role, because changing would force everyone else to update their idea of him. Nobody noticed how exhausting the performance had become. Not burnout. Draven. The cost of being recognized as someone you no longer are.