A hungry person is drawn to food, and a full person pushes it away. Attraction is never, ever absolute. It simply comes down to whether that thing, or that person, is in a 'needed situation' or not. Everything is a matter of relationship.

So, just because I can't appeal my charm (my pulling power) 'right now', 'around me', that doesn't mean it defines 'my' value. Because, as I said before, the practical value of something ultimately arises from the relationship between hunger and provision, it's not fixed in the thing itself. That's why I need to constantly discover what I can provide, and continuously seek out people who are hungry for the services I can offer. This is to create relationships that add value to each other.

That's what the advice to 'keep moving' symbolizes. It's not about forcing your body up to burn calories and fat, nor is it about earning money to fulfill social usefulness. I don't know what intentions people have when they use that phrase, but the core of its pure meaning is to keep changing your surroundings, even slightly, to find a 'point' where you feel a little less uncomfortable and a little more confident. There's a point for everyone, truly everyone, where their relationship with their environment becomes quite constructive.

For example, my leg gets stuck in a crevice and it hurts. If I pull it out, it won't hurt anymore. But if I just huddle there, saying, "I don't have the energy to move" or "I don't know how," I'll barely manage to suppress the sudden bursts of anxiety, just enduring the moment—many people with the help of tranquilizers—and ultimately, the 'relationship' between me and my environment will never change. Meanwhile, both my body and mind will be utterly damaged.

Even if it means awkwardly crawling, giving the relationship between myself and my environment gradual changes will eventually bring moments where my mind feels more at ease. The process of changing the environment (the process of crawling out) itself is by no means elegant or refreshing.

Complex Circuits Creating Simple Functions

People don't change easily. Someone's tone of voice, actions, way of speaking—all of it is intricately woven from the internal circuits of that person. That's why even people who look similar have different ways of speaking. Some might convey determination, charisma, or perhaps even coercion in their tone, while others might seem somewhat indecisive. But that's not just superficial. The background to how such impressions are formed, meaning the neural circuits constructed within each body, are all different. The shape of those circuits, the strength of the signals flowing through them, everything. One small characteristic you see in someone is, in fact, the product of an incredibly complex neural circuit that completely fills that person's inner being.

To change one 'small characteristic', you have to overhaul the entire inner self that made it possible. For instance, let's say someone often says, "Why are you like that?" Even if you say, "Don't say that!" because you dislike hearing it, you're only temporarily suppressing the words, but all the other thought processes that inevitably led to those words remain unchanged. It's like a structurally leaky roof: even if you patch it with wooden boards, the leaks can still reappear with continuous rainfall. Unless the structure itself changes, the phenomenon that results from that structure will inevitably recur.

When you ask a masculine person to speak in a feminine way, or a neat person to become sloppier, they feel incredibly awkward, don't they? That's precisely because the circuits themselves that enable such a tone or attitude haven't yet been formed within them. If you change only the exterior while the interior remains the same, an internal-external inconsistency arises, leading to unnaturalness. Everything ultimately returns to its natural position.

Anything that possesses a certain characteristic can ultimately be called an environment. If someone has these characteristics, that person is also an environment to me. So, if your current situation is painful, unless you're going to undertake a major reconstruction to reconfigure your internal circuits to interpret external stimuli completely differently, changing your environment to reconstruct the relationship between yourself and the world can be incredibly helpful, very much so.