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>if you're staying fit because you are being pressured, you probably aren't having any fun Not everything in life is about "having fun". Pushing yourself beyon
by Barrin92 2y ago
>if you're staying fit because you are being pressured, you probably aren't having any fun
Not everything in life is about "having fun". Pushing yourself beyond your own comfort zone, or being pushed, is by definition not going to be enjoyable in some superficial sense, but it's the only way you'll ever actually engage with anything new or unfamiliar and grow.
Nobody who is grossly out of shape enjoys showing up at the gym the first time, but even though they don't enjoy it, it will benefit them all the same and eventually they may very well come to like it. It's the same with education, decades of trying to make education "fun" have resulted in large amounts of people being unable to absorb anything that isn't in some trivial sense gratifying.
- kstrauser 2y agoAnd further, you never know if you'll like something until you try it. That's kind of universally true. The idea of going to a gym isn't appealing at all if you describe it objectively: you're going to go to a large room filled with heavy hunks of metal and sweating strangers. You're going to lift them up and down until you can't do it anymore. Then you'll drive home. That's not exactly appealing. And yet, despite everything, I love the way I feel when I'm working out. It's perfectly A-OK not to like going to social outings with others. But until you've tried it, you don't actually know whether you like it or not.
- bawolff 2y ago> Not everything in life is about "having fun". Of course not. However i would put recreational activities squarely in the "having fun" category.