Filling a Hole or Making it Deeper

Entertaining a question received from a friend about the endurance events I enjoy so much. ~paraphrasing~When you commit and find yourself consumed with participating in these endurance events, are you trying to fill a hole and do you end up making it deeper?I think the question is answered differently for everyone. And the conversation can be applied to more 'obsessions' or 'passions' than just endurance sports.I'm a fan of balance. Drifting to one side or the other from time to time but generally coming back to center. It's when you aren't having the conversation that the world will end up jerking you back over the center to autocorrect.