tonin wrote:
Do you ever challenge your comfort zone? How? Why? How does it make you feel?
I have many little rituals and set ways of how things must be done. Occassionally I step out this comfort zone to see how I feel. Usually I'll get very worked up about something minor later that day or night from the residual stress of breaking my own rules.
It just doesn't work for me.
It depends what you mean. If you need something and have to leave your comfort zone to get it, the need can be sufficiently motivating and the discomfort can be sufficiently worthwhile.
If you were starving and had to leave your comfort zone to find food, I think you'd do it once you recognized that some things are just more important to you than simple comfort.
Someone said something once, which resonated with me in relation to this line of thought. I don't remember the exact wording, but I think it was something about inertia, friction, and momentum. That kind of area anyway. It went "One of the laws of this world is that a stationary object will remain stationary, and it cannot go into motion or gain momentum without experiencing an amount of resistance or friction and overcoming it to some degree". Well, it was
something like that. Basically what I understood it to mean is that unless you're willing to put up with some resistance, nothing will change and you'll never be able to get anywhere. It's not easy, but naturally the more you hide in your comfort zone, the more you hide away from the simple truth that some things just aren't easy, nor are they supposed to be.
Since you implied that you have some desire to overcome this "friction", and that desire does exist, it really just comes down to feeding that desire to make it stronger, and pitting it against the resistance in an effort to force your way through it. Apparently, in this world, that's what life is all about.
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16 Sep 2010, 5:35 am
