June 13
Maybe exercising keeps paying back in the thousand ways it does because I have to keep investing myself. It’s not like smoking, where once you have quit, it is over (eventually anyway – took me about five years of being quit to say that – after the thirteen it took me to actually get quit). But those kinds of things are non-action. Eventually I don’t have to make any continuing investment to stay stopped. Exercise demands that I orchestrate my schedule over and over again to fit it in, that I move my body day after day, even when I am tired and stressed. I have to keep investing, but it keeps paying me dividends…tenfold.