at this stage in my life, i'm finding that i often have to make adjustments and set harsh boundaries simply because i don't have the same capacity for negative circumstances that i used to

it isn't that i'm particularly old, i think, but i definitely feel like i've had much more than my own share of stress, frustration, disappointment, and loss at this point. way too much

so, i may not always feel the need to take on additional potential sources of these things, because wow i'm tired