Altschmerz is a sense of weariness of the same old problems. The exhaustion from wrestling your anxieties, fears, and flaws into submission every day to just get on with life.
Examples include imposter syndrome, which is basically the feeling that you're not good enough to be (Blank). Such as, I've almost hit 200 blog posts here, but am I really saying anything that anyone wants to hear? Am I being too opinionated? Missing information you want to know? Is it annoying that I keep linking my sources at the bottom like this instead of trying to do it MLA style or something? These are my demons to wrestle, and they can get tiring, so this resonates with me a lot. Especially right now, but I'll deal with it. I always do.
Weltschmerz is a similar word, but instead of focusing on yourself, it's the feeling you get when you look at the world as it is and realize that it's not what you think the world should be, and that it will never be what you think it should be. That's one that I can almost guarantee everyone is feeling.
And now I'm too depressed to want to talk about them more.
Darn. Well, now you've got a new word to explain why you're tired even when you haven't done anything.
Go do something fun and tell me about it, so I can look at the world and see more good bits to it. Beyond the purring cat that has decided it needs to try to climb up my nose now.
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