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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.
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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.
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@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.