The Alchemist's Dream

The Alchemist's Dream

Something Is Draining Our Spark

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Oct 16, 2025
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Lately, there’s a collective heaviness in the air, and people everywhere are running on empty, physically and spiritually. Friends who used to chase goals now shrug when you ask what’s next. Co-workers stare at screens with that thousand-yard gaze. It’s not laziness; it’s a new kind of desperate hollowness. A profound, far-reaching fatigue that so many people are enduring currently. The quiet disillusionment with systems, mental numbness, and the sense that something is dulling our spark.

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