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Don’t change where you are. Make where you are.

I can be a depressed person trying to change who I am so I work out for many years yet I’m still sad after that despite gaining physical health.

I changed nothing emotionally. Since I was trying to change from a sad person into a happy one, I failed in that goal. I’m not only a sad person still, but I’m one who’s realized working out didn’t help change that and this makes it worse. I feel like it was all a waste.

To change isn’t to gain any new perspective. It’s to enforce the one you have thus keeping it the same no matter how things become different.

I can be a depressed person trying to make who I am so I work out for many years yet I’m still sad after that despite gaining physical health.

However, I wasn’t trying to not be sad, I was trying to make something more than that and I did. I’m a sad person, but also a strong one who’s physically built and that makes me happy. I feel accomplished.

To make is to gain new perspective. It adds to the one you have thus making it different no matter how much things remain the same.

Both of them did the exact the same thing under the same situation, but one viewed the goal as making instead of changing and therefore found more fulfillment in it. There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. Working out won’t make me happy, but I can be happy about working out.
Profound thoughts. Love it.

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. Working out won’t make me happy, but I can be happy about working out.
This says it all.
Reject · 26-30, M
@CookieCrumbs Yes! You can be made, or you can do the making.
@Reject
It’s no easy choice or challenge.
But if we remind ourselves of our WHY, we will do out best to get to where we want to be. 🤗
Reject · 26-30, M
@CookieCrumbs This is true, but I also believe it’s not so much why we do as it is how we do it. Everyone’s why is that they want to be happier, but it’s their how which decides if they get that or not. Doing our best won’t amount to anything if we’re doing it the wrong way.
Thandeka · 31-35, F
I was depressed for two decades and was ready to take my life. I used mobile games, porn, writing exotic stories to escape but it got old so I totally get where you're coming from. I even used the opposite sex and pot to keep myself busy and distracted but it was just useless. I was a sad person and the people I kept in my circle started to notice and the avoiding started till I was left all my by myself. It was a dark time I can tell you this.

When I came to the end of me I started to seek God. I had to let him understand why I had to take my life so I prayed multiple times a day even after reading and writing those exotic stories and smoking pot. I started reading more of my Bible something I rarely did and one day I wake up and I'm free from depression and suicidal thoughts. See this happened the same time I had lots of money so I kinda felt like this freedom wasn't real but only attached to my current situation. I prayed for God to prove that I'm really free. All the money is gone but I'm still joyful. I knew for a fact that God had healed me from depression and suicidal thoughts 😀
It makes no sense to look for happiness. happiness is a normal unchanging state, which is always there. it's just that the stream of consciousness constantly distracts from this state.

sports forever.
Reject · 26-30, M
@fakable That stream of consciousness can certainly befuddle things! As many answers as the mind provides, they all close doors if you don’t keep them open.

Yay sports! Lol. At least today I feel in sync with you.
Yeah but were you working out to impress a girl or because you enjoyed it and wanted to be fit? Maybe you are unhappy because your end goal was not met and you need to examine your actual goals and do things that actually make you happy instead of trying to do things you think will make someone else impressed but does not??
Lisaandchestnut · 31-35, F
Hmm good outlook

 
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