What I Learned from a Stroke at 26: Make Time to Untangle
I spent several years in my mid-twenties working like the author, pretty much non-stop. At the lowest point, I fell into a weird sleep pattern: I&#x27;d crash as soon as I got home around 6:00 in the evening, then wake up around midnight and be back at work by 1:00 am.<p>It took an old friend&#x27;s suicide to jolt me out of it. I saw a lot of my old buddies at the funeral and started reestablishing those friendships. We played a lot of video games. Xbox Live probably saved my life. The worst thing about overwork is that it becomes difficult to imagine yourself doing anything else when you&#x27;re in the thick of it, like it doesn&#x27;t even occur to you that you should be spending your time elsewhere; I wonder if any of you have experienced this. Thankfully, even something as inconsequential as Halo was enough to help me rearrange my priorities.