Devaansh Goyal
Sep 2, 2018 · 3 min read

Get out of your comfort zone.

Throughout our lives, we search for happiness. But we end up being content with good enough, or just fine. Being content with just fine. Reading that sentence just sounds so extremely boring Don’t you think? Have you ever heard of a visionary or a pioneer saying i was content with what i was doing, or how i never stepped outside my comfort zone? No, of course not! That’s because they got their ass off the bed, and did something that was not up their alley.
It’s not easy getting out of our comfort zone. We just like it too much to give it up for something new. But the reality of today’s world is that we have to have to get out of the illusion of fineness that we’ve created around us, if we want to do something meaningful with our lives. We can’t spend every night, watching Netflix, chatting with friends, lying in front of the TV. Because that’s what a 'just fine' life is. And that, is not good enough.
Only a handful of us like being social out there. Most of us are awkward about going out there talking to strangers and taking an interest in their lives. We’d rather bitch about the ones we have judged wrongly and too quickly, and we’ll do that because that makes us Happy for a little bit. That’s what comfortable sounds like! Well guess what! Snap out of it mate. No person can reach anywhere, if they are unable to talk and connect with strangers. (You’ll secretly think, that’s not true, Einstein and those other scientists did! Well if you’re a bloody genius, go invent something useful and save the world would you! Why’re you reading this dumb article then? )
We hate trying new things, we hate change. We like stability. Lazing around, bitching around. That’s what makes us CONTENT. We want more, we definitely do, but we’re too content to do anything about it, because that would involve us getting out of our comfort zone. Well, cheers to being an ordinary cog in an indifferent universe mate!
The biggest fear amongst most people is, will strangers like them? They know their friends like them so they chill with them. But strangers, that’s a big nono. Because they’re low on self confidence, they know for a fact that a stranger won’t like them, and hence they don’t want to be rejected. Well guess what! You won’t know if someone likes you or not if you don’t bloody talk to them! Go ahead, give it a try! Who knows what might happen. The point is, don’t settle in life. The moment you settle, is the moment you accept something far less than what you can get. This is not the age for you to settle mate. You can do it. You have potential. A 40 year old doesn’t. Go out there, out of your comfort zone. Who knows you might be Zuckerberg’s new CFO.

PS. If you get rejected for something you tried to get, or don't like the new thing you tried, does not mean, that you go back to an endless montage of fucked up shows where other people are doing wonders. Go ahead, get rejected the 2nd time, then the 3rd, then the 4th. Keep going. Know it, that the 37th time, you'll be king of the world.

Just don't settle.

Devaansh Goyal

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