Loftwings and Demons

There was a time in my life where I greatly overprioritized work and it eventually led to a complete emotional breakdown because it forced me to ignore handling any problems in my personal life (how was I going to work those out when I spent most my waking moments thinking about and trying to fix Work Problems lol) and eventually even led to a vast degradation in the quality of my work itself since all the problems in my personal life that were piling up were causing me...emotional distress, to say the least.  And having to work all the time was causing that too.

Eventually, I realized that my focus was not sustainable (sadly only because it was impacting the very thing I was focusing so hard on, but still). And I made the decision to [redacted].  Which allowed me the space to start addressing those personal issues.  I wouldn't say that me addressing my personal problems fixed all of those completely and made my life some happy utopia, but it did constitute a *significant* improvement, and made me realize how easy it is in our modern world to neglect vastly more important problems in order to address vastly more urgent problems.