As we keep moving throughout life you will see most everything is designed to provide comfort and make things easy for us, we make it our goal to do whatever possible to seek and enjoy our life while being comfortable. Pursuing  the promise that if you  work in certain way you would be able to  reach a point where you have accumulated enough wealth to just sit back and enjoy life without having to do anything except enjoy life. 

How many use this as motivation to take them through a day, week, month, year, waiting to get to that point where you will have complete comfort?

But is this true?

Is being comfortable good for us?

Doing some research, the meaning of being comfortable is enjoying or providing a position of contentment and security. 

Comfortable applies to anything that encourages serenity, well-being, or complacency as well as physical ease.

I can’t deny that this state feels great, however do we gain something from it?

There is a great quote that I always use when I start feeling to comfortable:

 “A comfort zone is a beautiful place but nothing grows there” 

–John Assaraf–

And I believe that this holds true in our lives.

Some of us search for that comfort zone in everything we do. Searching for that daily and investing so much time on searching and staying in that comfort zone.

It could be just chilling watching tv, scrolling through social media, oversleeping and any other activity that does not require effort, just cruising through the day without any real effort.

Maybe at work you are in that position where everything is easy for you and you just go through those motions and don’t even break a sweat.

Maybe you work out and do exactly the same thing over and over again. After some time your body and mind will get accustomed to what you are doing and eventually you will get comfortable and your efforts will be less to reach a certain result.

Now if you go through motions every day getting the same results, 

How does that make you feel?

Do you feel fulfilled? 

The only thing that is constant in the universe is change and in order to grow we must learn to deal with change and learn to be uncomfortable once in a while. Being in an ultimate state of comfort can be bad for us as we are not moving and when we get stagnant  we  create other issues.

This is where you can use the saying:

“Use it or Lose it”

• If you do not use your mind and challenge it to think and solve issues, it might start losing its thinking power and you might not be able to function as well when you get older.

• If you don’t move your body, you might start getting in a state of atrophy and generate health issues, such as poor blood circulation and weaker muscles.

• If you don’t challenge yourself to do something that might be uncomfortable, maybe that something that you have always wanted to do but get scared of, you will always live with the question and wondering what could have happened vs the certainty of trying and maybe failing or better yet succeeding.

Challenges are a part of life and practicing being uncomfortable whatever situation you are in will prepare you to grow as a person and not settle to be in the “The Bliss of Being Comfortable”.

E. Luna