The Soggy Crumb

When burnout melts all your structure and strength

Dear Crumbheads,

You’ve been stretched too thin, soaked by expectations you could never fully hold. The Soggy Crumb isn’t lazy — it’s waterlogged. Saturated. You kept standing even as everything inside felt heavy and crumbling. Today, it’s okay if you feel like you can't hold your shape.

. . .

It's okay to be soggy. It means you absorbed too much and kept going anyway.
I once tried to bake a soggy loaf — it came out like a sad edible beanbag chair. 10/10 would collapse into again.

Wrap yourself in a blanket today without rushing to "fix" anything. Let the heaviness be witnessed, not solved.

Recovery doesn’t happen when you force yourself to stand tall. It starts when you let yourself puddle without shame.
What part of you feels the heaviest today? Can you let it sit without trying to dry it out too fast?

You don’t have to become crisp or structured today. Let sogginess be enough. Let existence be enough.