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We all get tired
Much the same like we all get depressed - a normal & necessary mechanism that if it lasts for too long no longer works & causes damage.
Absolutely. I should have used an /s
It's a line from a sketch
Oh, sorry, I really wasn't clear & just ~~randomly regurgitated from my brainhole~~ wrote the thought I thought people (not you specifically) should be aware-ish of (psa, kinda, about how getting depressed is normal and healthy but that clinical depression is something else - but thats hard to explain to people not afflicted by it & using the case of fatigue + your quote seemed like a good place for it ... perhaps if I started with "we all get depressed").
I wrote it after I've already seen your explanation (it felt like a reference anyway) - but now reading what/how tf I replied it absolutely looks like Im explaining you basic human stuff.
No worries at all, don't even worry about it.
some of us syndromically
It's the line from the sketch (it's the only one I know of from the early 2000s about it). Jesus is healing people of various ailments and someone says they have ME and he responds "well, we all get tired".
oh ahhah, it rang a bell but I couldn't remember