The Perks of Not Leading a Comfortable Life

Recently, I came to a realization. There is something that creeps over us from time to time and that even thought is present in everyday life, we seem to blatantly and purposely ignore its perks.



Feeling uncomfortable. It is a necessary state for everyone. It's much more just than feeling sad, bad, anxious, in pain, stressed, hungry, sleepy. But this is not about just striving for these things. Also, I'm not wanting to relate them with extreme feelings of uncomfortableness. It's about something else.



Getting out of your comfort zone? Closer. But that's still not exactly what is meant with these words. Being out of your comfort zone is sometimes synonymous with adventuring. Travelling, doing something different, more extreme. What I intend here is the core of what leaving your comfort zone means. It's a beyond pushing boundaries, and it's beyond accepting bad things in your life and learning with them, it's not only allowing a degree of distress, but welcoming it; plus, from time to time, actually making a small effort to get to it. It's all about that, actually, making the effort.



It's about a mix of taking responsibility for your actions and knowing that they can't always have good outcomes and knowing that the good and variable things in life don't all stem from comfort and happiness, which in turn lets you know the importance of resilience, discipline, and very importantly, not having anything in extreme abundance. If you eat cake everyday, chances are you're going to get tired of it very soon. You need more diversity, and sometimes diversity is to be found in places you wouldn't expect. To keep up with the metaphor, it's not just about liking sour or sweet or salty or greasy, but also learning and knowing how to cope with those tastes you could possibly not fathom, or just plain would avoid.



This is not, in any way, to be taken as a point for going for the harshness of what the world can give you, much less if you consider stress and work as a necessary part of life and as the outcomes of success. My problem is the consistent wish for the easy way and for the peaceful stance towards things.



I advocate healthy living as much as the next, but not eating exactly 1900 calories, in the forms of all the proteins and nutrients that you devised for your self is not what's going to ruin you. In fact, the obsession in supposed and non-dynamic pre-established paths for what you plan out of life is.



We need less planning, more adventure, and more exertion.



Effort comes easily when we enjoy any given activity, and this is the sort of effort that we must cultivate in our mind and in our surroundings: the effort that not only you're pleased to make, but the effort that extends just a tiny bit beyond the effort that you're pleased to make.



This means that you don't have to fully open the gates of pain and distress in your life but it also means you won't feel as bothered when some of it seeps in.





