The pressure of being “the one who made it out” is heavy. You can be grateful and still tired.

Carrying other people’s hope is heavy in a way that is hard to complain about, because everyone involved means well. Gratitude and exhaustion are not opposites, and you can feel both at full strength on the same afternoon. The difficulty is that being grateful starts to feel like a rule against admitting you are tired.

Find one person outside all of it who is not counting on you for anything. Say the tired part to them without apologising for it. Then look at what you are carrying and notice how much of it was handed to you rather than chosen.