The constant tug of war between love and exhaustion never ceases in programming as in life. The evident patterns, as I've seen them, follow from the amount of "

The constant tug of war between love and exhaustion never ceases in programming as in life. The evident patterns, as I've seen them, follow from the amount of "play" that I engage in during my programming pursuits. If I can find time to do something expressive and delightful for myself (making art or solving a small problem in a way that I enjoy), that will lift my spirits quite a lot.