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Step out of your comfort zone "not!"
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Everywhere you
look it seems someone is urging you to step out of your comfort zone.
Treating it as if it where some kind of a holy grail, the secret to our
lifes which has only recently bean discovered and handed down to us. I
cant help but wonder whether it came straight from heaven or from a new
Book you can buy at your local store for only $59.99. I really find
stepping out of my comfort zone “well” uncomfortable at best. And I am
shore that it has to be bad for your health. Just think of the elevated
cortisol levels in your blood. It is extremely tiering to be around
people thinking that stepping out of your comfort zone is supposed to
be the solution to al your problems, and whenever somebody expresses
any kind of reluctance to do so they get looked down upon as if you
where some kind of blasphemer who has just insulted their religion.
Life
is a daily struggle. It is and it always has been ever since the first
day that evolution began. Every animal and every plant instinctively
strives to find comfort within this struggle for survival. Humans have
brains and therefore can think and plan. Sadly some people don't use
their brains to think about intelligent stuff or to make smart plans
instead they use their brains to believe in really weird stuff. Stuff
that is so bizarre that any animal would reject it because its evolved
instinct tells it that this is not in its best interest. And any
intelligent person would reject it because intellectually it doesn't
make any sense.
One day your life will come to an end. And
your final thoughts are running trough your head, you will contemplate
about all the things you have with your given time. What will you think
about? Will you remember a life that was enjoyable, a life where you
enjoyed yourself and spent any spare time you had doing the things you
love? Or will you remember a life spent outside your comfort zone where
instead of enjoying yourself you where constantly thinking of ways to
step out of your comfort zone believing that this is a good thing to
do? But tell me. When it is all over and life has come to an end. What
did it bring you apart from discomfort? It brought you nothing, apart
from wasted time!
Stepping out of your comfort zone is way
overrated and grossly misunderstood. Stepping out of your comfort zone
is something that should be done with caution. Think about and analyse
what the benefits are of stepping out of your comfort zone at a given
moment. If stepping out of your comfort zone is going to permanently
increase the size of your comfort territory it might be a worthy
investment, where the pay-off for your efforts is a larger comfort zone
which will lead to a better life. In this occasion you should go ahead
and step out of your comfort zone. However there are many more
occasions where stepping out of your comfort zone will not reap any
benefits for you or the ones you care about. For instance if you don't
like horseback riding but your aunt and her weird boyfriend invited you
along because the rest of your relatives whom you don't even
particularly like are invited as well and you feel uncomfortable about
the whole thing. There is no reason why you should attend this
activity. Someone might nag you to go along and step out of your
comfort zone, arguing the case that you might meat someone interesting
there. The truth is you are better to to spend this time in your
comfort zone with uncle boldie in the bowling ally where you are just
as likely to meet someone interesting. Plus there is a better chance
that this someone likes the same pastime activities as you do.
I
could go on with endless examples but the moral of this article is
don't assume that something is good because everyone else thinks it is.
You should only step out of your comfort zone if it is going to fulfil
some kind of purpose for you or someone whom you care for, or if it is
going to be fun once you get there like in the case of somebody eager
to take up skydiving. In any other situation you should make it a point
to spend as much of your life inside your comfort zone or in your newly
expanded comfort zone. Life is really hard enough as it is and we
should grab and hold on to any comfort we can.
Kaiser
PS.
Kaiser believes that stupid people should keep their stupid opinions to themselves!
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