The Challenge of Enjoyment

Author's Note: The challenge that pleasure and enjoyment bring is more than often worth the hard work that is needed.

 Have you ever had that one thing in life that felt challenging but exciting? For me that is what  physical activity is. It’s the challenge in life that brings you big rewards, brings you excitement, brings you closer to your friends. It is life’s way of saying challenges can be hard but you should try and make the most out of it whether you win or lose. Physical activity provides challenges and enjoyment.

The challenge that physical activity brings is what it is all about. You’re always trying to push yourself to meet your goals and improve on your previous progress. The whole point of training and practicing is to beat a time, a height, or a distance. It’s about putting in a large amount of time and effort so that a large reward can come out of it. If minimal time is put into achieving goals then very little can be brought out of the experience. It seems that if physical activity were taken away there would just be a big gap in most people’s lives because they lose the enjoyment and encouragement that this brings.

Challenging as physical activity may be it can also provide lots of social interaction. Many people are persuaded by friends to sign up for sports so they can talk and enjoy the sport even better. A friend may just want another friend to come workout with him so that they can keep a conversation going or push each other to do better. Both of these experiences have happened to me and it helped me to enjoy physical activity and encouraged me to more sports and workout more. Now I always try to encourage my friends to join sports and activities that I’m doing or considering doing.

Physical activity may provide you with more social interaction but also enjoyment in general. My overall mood is changed because of physical activity. I feel that I am a healthier person and generally feel good knowing that this is my lifestyle. With one of the goals of physical activity being to stay healthy or get healthier I feel very accomplished. This accomplishment makes me enjoy myself and encourages me to do better at other things such as my education. I accomplish more things there and just enjoy myself that much more.

With the enjoyment, socializing, and challenges that physical activity brings it would be ridiculous to not give it a shot. It is a great activity that could improve your lifestyle in more than one way. Who knows, you may find that along the journey you find something even more like a new friend or renewed friendship between old friends. No matter what happens that outcome of physical activity will always bring a smile to your face.