The Obsession With Comfort
We may crave comfort but is it what we really need more of?
In every area of life, we seek to find the sweet spot. That moment in which there is no push or pull, no resistance, just the comfort of being at peace.
More and more as I find my inner world pulled in two opposing directions, I’m starting to wonder if they are compatible at all or will I have to choose? On the one hand, I believe completely in the continual process of bettering yourself, of learning and developing as a person, but that requires not only effort but the willingness to be uncomfortable, unsatisfied, and thirsty for more.
On the other hand, I believe in letting all of that go and finding the peace of contentment, of accepting who and what we are in the current moment and expanding that moment until that is the sole force we carry around with us in our daily lives. The surrendering of achievement and the need to strive.
While peace does feel good, for me it often feels like the calm before the storm, or perhaps the eye of the storm itself, with the chaos of growth all around it. I remember even as a young child having a sense of understanding just how big the world was. Just how many different things you could be or do, and I wanted to try them all. To not do so felt like a betrayal of potential, a waste of the…
