How do I keep serving people when expectations bury me?

You show up. You do the work. You help who you can help today. And still the pile doesn't move. Everyone wants more than you have to give. Here is what you're missing: you are answering to a crowd that lives mostly in your own head. The real people are the ones in front of you right now. The impossible standard — the one that never lets up — you built that court yourself. No one else swore you into it. If the weight ever turns into something heavier than a hard week, don't carry it alone. Talk to someone who can help you carry it. But most days, your task is smaller than it feels: act well, right now, with what is actually yours to give. Judge yourself by that, and nothing else.