People forget so quickly. The easy hours, low stress, and free happy hours help.
Busy Season ends, and you spend the weekend enjoying copious libations and celebrating with the team. Spend another night getting shitfaced with real friends. You get to do nothing at work for a few days, and take some hour-long lunches away from the desk. The relative bliss that is a normal work day makes you start to forget about all the bullshit. You're just so happy to not be at work until 2am, and dare I say, a little proud of yourself for finishing the project? Its actually a great feeling, though its akin to applying an ice-pack to your bruised genitals.
Eventually, everyone gets back to being a zombie, hating their life from 9-6, then doing something to help assuage the misery in the remaining 5 waking hours.
Its not uncommon for people who go though drastic life changes and really traumatic experiences to actually value the experience, even though life was terrible at the time. These experiences wake you up.
Don't forget that you hate your life 8 months a year. Do something you love. Do something where you make a difference, and add value to the world. Challenge yourself. Change your path.
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