Cirion
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Cirion, I really don't think you were ever truly happy if you lost it that easily by just doing too many gym workouts or not being disciplined enough with what you eat. Why would you push yourself too hard if you were truly happy? Why would you eat foods you know are bad for you if truly happy? Why would you get into relationships with negative people who bring you down if you were truly happy? These choices don't happen in a vacuum.
What I observed from people who seem "genuinely" happy is whatever they are feeling is not that sensitive to disruption by minor life circumstances like that. It is a predisposition that is usually observed to have been with that person his whole life. I've also been high and experienced the rush of falling in love where I just spontaneously lose a ton of weight and always spring out of bed for months on end, it never lasts. Just like you have never been able to make it last indefinitely, whatever it is you felt.
Maintaining good health is much like maintaining wealth. They both take constant maintenance. Just because your are healthy doesn't give you liberty to eat junk food like its going out of style, getting wasted every weekend, and staying up all night, etc. Similarly, if one is wealthy, that doesn't give them liberty to buy a new house/car every year. Being wealthy also takes a lot of maintenance and tracking your assets and rate of returns, and expenditures relative to gains from assets. The same applies to being healthy. You can't abuse your body and expect it to remain healthy. In order to retain wealth you must continue to invest a lot of money every year, and not pull out more than is gained per year. Actually, wealthy people often live more frugally than middle class individuals. Being healthy requires similar discipline. Recognizing that you should take frequent vacations, days off, always get enough sleep, etc. Actually achieving health is also kind of like building wealth. To "Build health" you must build up nutrients and energy and androgens while reducing expenditures (stress).
You are right though that it takes more than one small thing to destroy good health but it absolutely does add up over time without watching things. As for the choices, well, being healthy has a way of making you feel invincible and thus stop caring about being as strict about things. Yes, I was foolish. I took the good health for granted, a mistake I don't plan to make the next go around. I made many bad choices because feeling good has a way of making you do dumb things or at least for me it did. I had never had a long-term relationship before, I had in fact never even been healthy enough to properly chase one, so that one I chalk more up to inexperience than anything else (but another mistake I shall not make again).
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