Why am I bringing everyone else's pain home with me?

You did not sign up to feel this much. But you do, and now it does not stay where you found it. It comes home in your silence at dinner, your short temper, the way you stare at nothing. You call this dedication. Look closer — it is an unmanaged weight. This is not a flaw in your character. It is a gap in your practice. You built skill for the work itself, but no skill for what the work does to you afterward. Nobody taught you where the feeling goes when the shift ends. So it goes everywhere — your house, your sleep, your patience with people who deserve better. You are not the only one carrying this. Your team feels it too, even if no one says so at the check-in. The fix is not to feel less. It is to build, together, a place to set the feeling down before it reaches your front door.