The opposite of "burned out" isn't "rested." It's "wanting to start again on Monday."

I missed this for a year. I kept treating burnout like sleep debt — kept counting the hours, kept telling myself a long weekend would fix it. The long weekend didn't fix it. The fix came when the work changed shape: I dropped the part I'd been carrying out of obligation, kept the part I'd carry without anyone watching, and on Sunday evening I found I was looking forward to Monday morning.