The hill remains the same while the reasons for climbing it can change.

The physical thing does not care why you are doing it. A hill you first climbed to prove something can become, twenty years later, a hill you climb to think, or to be outdoors, or simply because your body still can. The activity is identical and the meaning is rebuilt. That is worth knowing, because people abandon something when the original reason stops applying, as though the practice were only a means to it.

If something you used to love has gone quiet, ask what it could be for now rather than whether the old reason still holds. The answer is often smaller than the first one and lasts longer.