Did you ever have a project consume most of your life? Like weeks and weeks at a time and taking up all your life and energy. Let’s compare this to drinking. You start with one drink—or an idea. Then the cute bartender who mixes strong drinks gives you a drink for free. By then, you are starting to get tipsy (or, in this case, intoxicated with the idea). Well, you have already had a few drinks, why not commit to getting drunk?
The next thing you know, you are drunk on the idea, your brother is picking you up at the bar in the middle of the night and you’ve deemed twelve people as your new best friend. Well, now the idea is out of control and it is bigger than you are. You have to commit to it.
When the project or idea is over, you are hung over. You can’t get out of bed. You have no energy. You don’t want to socialize. You just want to sleep. Whether it is a summer job at a Nazi death camp or a book or a film or a museum display, any project can suck the life out of a person. The only way to cope with it is to relax for a week, take two aspirin, and call your friends in the morning.
