no exact solution

why is it that sometimes we do things that bring us pain, and gain satisfaction from it. iv'e been thinking about this more in the past week since i accomplished a half marathon run and by the time i was done i was thinking to myself "that was only a half marathon, how am i ever going to accomplish a complete marathon?". of course the next couple days following getting out of bed in the morning wasn't as easy and it should have been trying to do it with ought my muscles hurting, trying to bend over with out my back feeling like i was 100 years old. now just a few short days later i feel back to my normal self and i have even gone running again (not nearly as long as a distance), and am now planing to somehow attempting to train for a marathon (thanks Hilary for talking me into it just because you needed someone as crazy as you to do it). i know that after running a marathon or even if ever running a half marathon again i know i will be sore, so what's the point of doing something that is going to bring me discomfort?

here is another example... last night i when paint balling with some friends. i had only been once before and i was re-thinking the fact of why i was even going. all in all it was fun. nothing i would be obsessed with and go every day, but i did find some type of fulfillment out of it. now today i have some keepsakes if you will (bruises) to show my bravery in playing the game. going into play i knew that getting hit wasn't going to be exactly what we call fun. so why did we do it? why did we go into play this knowing we would come out with some kind of pain?

i don't know the exact solution to the problem, but i think we find a kind of satisfaction in overcoming some type of physical pain. as for completing a marathon, i think it would definitely be worth it (but i haven't exactly ever run a marathon, so who am i to know). just the single sole fact of satisfaction in completing something as physical as a marathon should be worth some type of physical stretch, paint balling on the other hand i don't have a solution to why the human race does such things (but i am a part of it).

Q: why is it that sometimes we do things that bring us pain, and gain satisfaction from it?

A: i don't have a solution to why the human race does such things.