The Comfort Trap: Why Standing Water Kills Growth

It isn’t a secret that a life worth living only happens at the edge and in the vast unknown that lies beneath it. Everything before is comfortable, but not without its own dangers. The place where water stands still. Swimming in still water is dangerous — bacteria and parasites build up fast, and it is surrounded by mosquitos, algae, and toxins. Only in our human case, the effect hits our psyche, clogs our mind, rusts our body, and dampens our soul’s fire. There is no growth in favor of our nature.

We might try hard to accomplish the smallest task to get the ball rolling towards a new version of ourselves, a new and improved future, and out of the blue we stop doing it. I believe one of the reasons is comfort. Comfort is warm, it is cozy, it’s oversleeping, choosing entertainment over improvement. It is filled with laziness, coveredness, and wishful thinking.

We are by nature drawn to comfort, to settle, which in itself isn’t bad in moderation. We are also built to go out, plant the fruits, work the soil for plantation season, and only then may we reap what we sow. Most of you are stuck in the reap season, sowing the leftovers and eating them, poisoning your bodies.

Don’t make one change — make more of them. Find comfort in discomfort. Dance between both of them without being attached to one.