Burnout is a defect deeply connected to the absence of love.
I surely do not talk about love in any religious or mystical way, I am refering to the strong bonds people can develope - friends, family members or lovers - that enable them to stick up for each other and care.
Yes, this does involve a feeling of responsibility, but despite the fact that the majority of the human race seems to regard this as an annoying duty, feeling restrained by it, I say, it is actually freedom. Because love will lead to shared responsibilty and to taking care of each other. That is actually freedom, since freedom is no longer the freedom of the one who thinks differently. Our freedom ends where the freedom of the one we care for begins. That is the responsible part of love.
So, why now is burnout connected to the absence of love? Because it is the effect of taking responsibility without any bonds.
Or with too much of it.
© 2011