This morning, I began like any other, though once I hit the shower I felt a sense of fatigue. It wasn't the typical kind of tiredness that comes from a lack of sleep; rather, it was a deeper, more profound mental exhaustion. This was the kind of tired that whispers insidiously in the back of your mind, urging you to just give up for today, to surrender to the heaviness that clings to your body and soul. It was the shut-down-and-become-a-vegetable kind of tired, where every th