>>76342841 (OP)Well the main problem is when you compare it to things you already enjoy it probably doesn’t fit or come close to fulfilling the same desire — it’s not relaxing, engaging, emotional or social. It’s kind of dull, like sitting with yourself, only you’re also exerting yourself at the same time. So yeah, it’s at odds with most “desirable” things, but eventually you start to enjoy it for its own unique reasons, in its own way. Like for how you’re proud of how normal it’s started to feel, how it’s time to yourself where you don’t have to worry about the rest of life or “if you’re doing enough” because you’re right where you’re supposed to be. It’s an excuse to catch up on podcasts and music, you start to see small improvements in how you breathe, move, and feel. You enjoy how your muscles feel after a workout, how limber you get, and your brain releases subtle but noteworthy content chemicals that you start to miss when you skip days. It’s a bunch of small little perks that don’t measure up individually to the punch of sensation that a video game or cheeseburger might have, but you start to develop a sense of preference for the clean slate, the freshness, the general wellbeing and removal from random aches, pains, and subtle chemical imbalances that plague most people. A lot of wellbeing stems from exercise, more than people consciously recognize, and it simply makes good times better and bad times easier.
