Amazing, isn't it. You can work all day and actually feel refreshed (mentally), even if you are bone tired. You sleep well, and no matter how much or little, you know you did something.
Pity so many have been brainwashed to think there is no virtue in a hard day's work...and that may be one of the places our society has gone astray.
I never did understand going to a gym to work out--only did once in college, and people were astounded that I didn't know how any of the machines worked. I told them "Thanks, but that was boring."--and never went back. Between working tobacco, construction, baling hay, etc. we always had plenty of 'workout' and we got something done, too.
That’s why I despised “gym class” in HS.
I’m supposed run around a track for an hour to “get exercise” when after I go home, I’m gonna be cleaning horse stalls, pushing a lawn mower over 2 acres, baling hay, grooming horses, feeding dogs and the livestock and whatever other chores I had on my list?
Our TV got 2 channels, PBS and the local news so there was no reason to stay inside.
I was either running the ridges with my dogs or riding the horse in the woods.
I’d come home drag-@ss tired and happy.
Now I have to create messes just to have something useful to do.
:)