“The version of me people follow online isn't actually my life.”

There's the life and there's the feed, and the gap between them has been widening for years. The curated man is doing well; the real one is tired of pretending. You can't tell a single big truth to fix this — you have to slowly close the gap, post by post, until the man people see is the man who exists. The exhaustion you feel is the cost of the distance.