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I'm writing something and I know that if someone wants to add some ideas or phrases after the sentence finished, we could do it by adding one, something, which. So, are the sentences that I've written all right to use in a conversation situation? and here's a context.

" One of the happiest moment I’ve had was when I was doing something enthusiastically, like a contest, a relationship with a girl, studying English. If I look back, whatever it is, the happiest moment is when I find myself enthusiastically doing something. It is only when I’m doing something enthusiastically that I can feel alive. "

  1. But sometimes it is hard that I’m in a state of being enthusiastic, one that I really want to be in.

  2. But sometimes it is hard that I’m in a state of being enthusiastic, something that I really want to be in.

  3. But sometimes it is hard that I’m in a state of being enthusiastic, which I really want to be in.

  4. But sometimes it is hard that I’m in a state of being enthusiastic and that's something that I really want to be in.

PS. here, one, something, which, that means the state of being enthusiastic.

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  • You feel 'lively'. You never feel 'alive' unless you are being saved from the deadliest monsters in Pandora. :P
    – Maulik V
    Apr 28, 2015 at 5:40
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    @MaulikV: I absolutely disagree. If I feel lively I'm animated and funny and perhaps a bit excited. If I feel alive I feel myself more intensely. There is a reason these self-help books are titeled like "Forty-five Ways to Feel Alive", not " ...to Feel Lively"
    – Stephie
    Apr 28, 2015 at 6:17
  • But not here! I related 'enthusiasm' with 'liveliness'. There, I cannot think of using 'feeling alive'. @Stephie
    – Maulik V
    Apr 28, 2015 at 7:01

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Believe it or not, all of your phrasings are sensible. There is no difference in meaning or tone.

Choose whichever one seems the most natural to you.

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