Comfort Zone, To Stay or Not?
Recently many events happened that make me wonder what exactly life is? Do we, humans, really understand the purpose of living? Is seeking happiness the way to lead a peaceful and fruitful life? What do we really look for? And do we really understand ourselves well?
To my surprise, I realised I don't exactly know myself that well as I alwayz thought I did. I thought I know what is living, I thought what I have been through was enough to shape my maturity. All I wanted was spice in my life, all I wanted is to live in my comfort zone.
However, after a conversation with my sis, I found out the idea of us being in our comfort zone isn't that comforting after all. It will be lucky if you can stay in there forever till u 'move' to a coffin, but usually, we tend to fall out of our comfort zone in a wink of an eye and that will be too much for us to take.
So, in order to save ourselves from the sudden attack of pain, how do we walk out of the comfort zone and move towards another stage in life? The bad news is, it's not easy and humans are unwilling to make this move. As what my sis said, we stay in our comfort zone because we have the tendency of not wanting to face the fact (truth hurts) and to avoid bringing pain upon ourselves. We'll only walk out of our comfort zone when one big tight slap come hitting us, waking us up and leaving us in great pain. Then, we'll realised we can't hide in the comfort zone forever and; we need to let go and move on.
Upon hearing this, suddenly a clearer picture of myself surfaced. Many answers to my failure, greed, apathy, and unhappiness started coming to light as if dawn has just broken after a long long night.
It's time for the Joyce in me to come out to greet the world and brave through storms.
Yes, walking out of the comfort zone will lead you to a danger zone, but as said, the process of 'zoning' is never smooth sailing.
"Throw yourself into these emotions, by diving in all the way, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is, you know what love is, you know what grief is. And only then you can say, "All right. I have experinced that emotion. I recognise that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment." - Quote from Tuesday with Morrie.
Recently many events happened that make me wonder what exactly life is? Do we, humans, really understand the purpose of living? Is seeking happiness the way to lead a peaceful and fruitful life? What do we really look for? And do we really understand ourselves well?
To my surprise, I realised I don't exactly know myself that well as I alwayz thought I did. I thought I know what is living, I thought what I have been through was enough to shape my maturity. All I wanted was spice in my life, all I wanted is to live in my comfort zone.
However, after a conversation with my sis, I found out the idea of us being in our comfort zone isn't that comforting after all. It will be lucky if you can stay in there forever till u 'move' to a coffin, but usually, we tend to fall out of our comfort zone in a wink of an eye and that will be too much for us to take.
So, in order to save ourselves from the sudden attack of pain, how do we walk out of the comfort zone and move towards another stage in life? The bad news is, it's not easy and humans are unwilling to make this move. As what my sis said, we stay in our comfort zone because we have the tendency of not wanting to face the fact (truth hurts) and to avoid bringing pain upon ourselves. We'll only walk out of our comfort zone when one big tight slap come hitting us, waking us up and leaving us in great pain. Then, we'll realised we can't hide in the comfort zone forever and; we need to let go and move on.
Upon hearing this, suddenly a clearer picture of myself surfaced. Many answers to my failure, greed, apathy, and unhappiness started coming to light as if dawn has just broken after a long long night.
It's time for the Joyce in me to come out to greet the world and brave through storms.
Yes, walking out of the comfort zone will lead you to a danger zone, but as said, the process of 'zoning' is never smooth sailing.
"Throw yourself into these emotions, by diving in all the way, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is, you know what love is, you know what grief is. And only then you can say, "All right. I have experinced that emotion. I recognise that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment." - Quote from Tuesday with Morrie.
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11:28 PM
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