To Welcome Discomfort

So firstly...here are a few sayings I've heard, that have made me wonder about a little thing called change..."Don't get too comfy", "Comfort is not a style", "When you're comfy, it's time to change"...all of these making me wonder only one thing...so lets look at things from this perspective:

Whenever someone says "don't get too comfy", it's usually a warning that things are about to change. It's to try an tell the person on the receiving end, that things have become complacent, nonchalant, boring or simply unchallenged. It's the type of warning that makes one become somewhat precarious about the position your in, the place you find yourself, the time you find yourself in, and makes you look at other options of simply getting out.

Or when Fashion Consultants tell someone that "Comfort is not a style", it usually implies that comfortable clothing equals to unfashionable clothing, much like frumpy, unattractive, colourless, shapeless clothing.It usually means, that the only way to know that something looks gorgeous, fashionable, stunning and stylish, is when something feels unbearably uncomfortable, like heels, or corsets, or dresses and shirts. Another warning that tells you to change.

But the most recent and oddest, simply unorthodox saying that I've ever had the pleasure of my ears coming across, was to hear someone saying "When you're comfy, it's time to change". This made me think a lot about the concept of change, and of how change relates to growth, life and new adventures. Life is meant to be about growth, about adventure and how those two things teaching us how to become better versions of ourselves - moving us closer towards our dreams, visions and great aspirations. However, this also opens up the frightening idea, that when there IS change, there must also come the possibility of great, painful and excruciating discomfort. People are always telling each other to change, and that "change is good", and that all things in life come from change, but what they don't tell you is how exceptionally hard it is, and that the process is long and simply discomforting.

Because here I was, hoping to change, hoping to grow, and hoping to start a new adventure in my life, not even for a fraction of a second thinking about how hard the change is really going to be, not just for me, but for everyone else too, not realizing that with a change would come a shift in my entire life, my entire lifestyle, shaping and remodeling whole lives that were built around mine, on top of mine, supporting mine and even creating mine, not for a moment taking the time to understand how discomforting and difficult this was really going to be. But I should have guessed, and should have been grown up enough to know that change could never be easy. But somewhere deep down inside I must have realized that this was going to be difficult for everyone...otherwise why would I fear it so much...why would I have been so afraid of this change.

So the fact of the matter is that Change with Comfort isn't change at all, and that Discomfort with Change is simply Discomfort. That without Discomfort, there isn't Change, without Change, there isn't Growth, and without Growth, there is no Life...so why fear it at all. Embrace it...embrace Change...embrace Life...the idea...the simple idea...is to welcome Discomfort, and say "Hello" to Change.