Lately, I’ve been wrestling with this feeling that’s hard to pin down. You see the news, the constant stream of big, systemic problems, and sometimes it just feels easier to shut it all out. I care deeply about the environment in my work, but there are days when the scale of it all makes me want to just focus on my spiders and my training. Is that moment of pulling back a necessary act of self-preservation, a way to keep from burning out? Or is it, at its core, a kind of moral laziness, a quiet way of opting out? I’m curious how others navigate this tension between caring and conserving their own energy. How do you tell the difference between needing a break and just giving up?