Don’t try to bring those back. Don’t go because it feels good. Go because it is good. Don’t go only when your discipline makes it feel easy. Go because it isn’t easy. The number one thing is to remember that being stronger makes you better. It makes you more useful, it means that you can lift a boulder off the most important person in your life. It means you have the endurance to sprint to that friend‘s house and bring back their Epipen. Being stronger is the only way.

Yeah this all sounds dumb maybe but that’s it. You only live once. Being stronger means you have a better chance at living as a hero and what’s life if you’re not trying to be one? Going to the gym feels great some days, and awful others. That’s what going to the gym is. It’s work. But it’s work that’s worth it.

Hope you feel better. I’m sorry for what you’re going through. Life can be really tough. Doing your best, whatever that is at any given moment, is enough.