After some time in life everyone must leave behind their safe and known place. To be honest comfort is desired by everyone because it is a beautiful thing, it makes our emotions stable, we stay calm, makes us feel secure, and content. But this comfort can become a cage, because it is going to create a barrier which won't allow us to grow and discover our true selves. I won't lie by saying that comfort can be left easily because that's not true at all, it is one of the hardest thing to do. But it's often the only way to move forward and find our true potential.
Alongside me, I believe everyone has built their own little comfort zones. This could be a place, or a routine, or a human being who make us feel at ease. It also counts as the place we have grown up, or the job we have been doing for year and year, or our habits that we have made in order to avoid any kind of risk. These things give us stability. But trust me this is like setting a limitation. I have gone through this feelings before and outside comfort zone it makes me feel anxious because it could be uncertain and unpredictable. However, this is exactly where our growth begins.
For example imagine there's a tortoise who lives inside a well there's no water inside of it. The tortoise has never seen the outside world. So, the inside of the well she feels safe and warm, but if the tortoise never learns to get out of the well and discover the big world then she will never learn what she wants in life because her knowledge is limited. It’s the same for people. We won't see development if we try to stay in comfort because it happens in discomfort, we must stay ready to take challenges. It's not a bad idea to step into risky things, of course there will always be a kind of fear and we might also fail in our motive, but we are also gonna gain courage and experience through this journey.
Firstly, leaving comfort behind is gonna start with small steps not going for the huge changes. Let me share my experience I was afraid of public speaking and I thought it's better not to speak because that's where I find comfort. But then I realized I'm missing so many opportunities for that reason I tried doing something new, and it started with taking a small step toward a dream. Within a time what was very discomfort to me once, it became very familiar. Each time I have done it and it felt like I'm stronger than what I had thought.
Through this courage of getting out of my space I have gained some personal growth. Not only that I have discovered some new perspectives. After leaving behind what I knew before and started to adapt new things such as getting to know new people and their cultures and possibilities of few things. Like this is a game changer I have definitely started to see the world in a very different way, and I have began to understand myself in deeper way. But there's also some risks like the new people might not always kind, but it teaches lessons that comfort never can.
The only enemy is fear which will always try to hold you back. The mind will start to overthink and we start to question on our abilities thinking of the consequences such as "What if I fail?" well, these thoughts are pretty natural. It is bound to happen with everyone. But fear is not a signal to stop I think of it in a different way, I think it’s a sign that something meaningful is coming ahead. I follow this kind of ideology that failure is going to bring a successful story. I do not regret anything because those mistake has taught me many beautiful and valuable things in life. In my eyes failure is refusing to try.
Moreover, life is very long and I do not want to stay stuck in the same place, I want to explore, and evolve. Like there’s so many things waiting for me in the future and I do not wish to waste it by staying in the walls of comfort. Because I feel it is the only way to truly live and we should stop surviving and start living.
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