Everyone wears a little mask at school. Make sure you’ve got somewhere you can take it off.

The mask is not dishonesty, it is just what you wear in a building where three hundred people can see you. Everybody has one, including the people who seem entirely unbothered. The trouble starts when there is nowhere it comes off, because wearing it continuously is what makes you tired in a way sleep does not fix.

Name the place where you are unguarded, and the person, if there is one. A sibling, a grandparent, one friend, a notebook nobody reads. Then put it in your week on purpose, since the unperformed hours are what make the rest bearable.