My battery is low and it's getting dark

The final message from a Mars rover in 2019 (translated to English by Jacob Margolis). The message was transmitted as a status update on its low power and poor solar panel effectiveness, 15 years after its original planned 90 day mission. I don't know why those words came to mind today, but they're a pretty good reflection of my mental state currently. My own battery is getting low, and while it might not be physically getting dark, the activity and light in my mind is going out. Recently it's been harder to be creative, harder to put energy into activities I used to find fun. Is this what burnout feels like? Depression? That spark of creativity constantly in my mind has faded and I don't know how to rekindle it. It's as if I'm a passenger in my own corpse, left behind by the world around it. There's projects I want to do and things I want to write about, but can't muster the will for any of them. I'm being dragged by a current I can't see, in a direction I can't control, and I lost…