Living in the Comfort Zone

Living in the Comfort Zone A comfort zone is only a beautiful name for a noncreative zone. When a bird lives in its cage, it may prove to be a comfort zone for it, but because of not putting its wings to use, it becomes lifeless. The Scottish writer Samuel Smiles has rightly said in his book Self-Help: ‘It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficulty, that makes man.’ Difficulties make a person energetic. Where there is no difficulty, a person gradually ends up becoming dull. It is not good, however, to jump out of your comfort zone simply out of ambition. This may prove to be a misadventure. But if circumstances require a change, do not be reluctant to accept it. Rather, admit it as a circumstantial gift. No misadventure is good, but facing changes with courage and wisdom inevitably pays off. A comfort zone is a self-created world. You create this world under the influence of your emotions and not by applying your rational faculty. It is a fact that all the successes of history are the outcome not of emotion but of reason.