Before coming out of comfort zone, let's think what is comfort zone? And how comfort zone is created?
To me, it's more about adaptability. If you are adapted to one condition or environment, it becomes your comfort zone. A new born cries immediately after it's birth. Because it's entering a zone which he or she is not used to. The comfort zone is the womb of its mom. But pushed to the uncomfortable zone. But he or she gets used to the environment, adapts to it and changes itself to a zone which is more comfortable for it.
Similarly, one has to put a lot of hard efforts to make any zone his comfort zone.
But is it applicable everytime? Have you ever experienced any situation where you meet some person for the first time and being more comfortable? Been to some new city and being so comfortable? Especially without any effort? You might have. When the thoughts are matching or when there is less dissimilarities or when the expectations are met, there comes the comfort.
But that doesn't mean, less expectation will bring comfort. Less expectation brings less disatisfaction but doesn't bring comfort.
So what brings comfort?
Its not just one factor but many factors influence it. More importantly the people.
When you go to a new city, where you don't know the language, How will you feel when you are alone, when you want to buy something? In the same situation how will you feel, when you have your friend nearby. Though he doesn't know the language you will feel comfortable, isn't it? Number one factor.
Now let's consider some other scenario, a workplace. In workplace you may have colleagues who are friends, colleagues who cares you, cares your growth, positive influencers, role models, who aspires you, who inspires you and of course who pulls you down. Here, you can be comfort from day 1 but the comfort level keeps increasing because of the people around you. How many of you felt uncomfortable as the days go? Until unless there is a huge change. Why we become comfort? And why is it changing? Its none other than us who created the comfort. The comfort we needed. We struggle to create that comfort. In the process of creating comfort, we learn. Learn to make friends, learn to make process better, learn to be effecient, learn to be unconciously doing the process and learn to be expert. So when we become expert our learning stops. Comfort makes us lazy.
Now let me talk something irrelevant. When a kid travels for the first time in flight, how excited it will be? Forget about kid. How was your first experience in flight? How excited you were before and after? Excitement level decreses after few boardings, isn't? Why? Have you ever thought? You become comfortable. The curiosity reduces. Your excitement reduces. Your learning reduces. So?
So, they say come out of your comfort zone. Keep learning, create new comforts.
Stop expecting a comfortable ending of this passage.
Happy Reading!
