Comfort zones.

Have you ever read/heard the saying, “I had to make you uncomfortable, so you’d grow,” signed the Universe?

The Oxford dictionary defines comfort zones as, “a place or situation where one feels safe or at ease and without stress.”

It’s safe to say we all want a safe and maybe even nice, comfortable place to call home. Hopefully we’ve all at least one place to say that about. I have. I just moved into my newest home. It wasn’t my dream home nor places I wanted to stay at for too long. (Just didn’t know how long.) Maybe longer than I had at my past homes. (I didn’t own any of those places. And to be honest, calling them home doesn’t feel right.) The issue was I had no idea how I was going to get to my dream home. Having consistent income was nice. Yet that income wasn’t enough to have my own home on or did I like the work I was doing for the job (Just Over Broke) I had at the time.

The lure of consistent income is also said to be what they give you to forget about your dreams. Still the consistent income is nice to have. Even though it’s probably not enough for you to have more than the bare minimum.

Comfort zones are just before routines, then ruts. Leading down the path to boredom. (To be honest, if you knew anything about me, you’d say I have no right to call anything boring. No argument here.) Routine of going to a job you don’t like, that you have to get up before the sun to get to, spend time in traffic, while wishing you were somewhere else. You get to work, sit behind a desk for too long, staring at a computer screen, you get home exhausted from work you’re not crazy about… You get the idea.

Maybe you don’t want to live your life in a rut. Yet you don’t know how to get out of it. The universe could be throwing you a lifeline you didn’t know you needed or wanted. It might feel like an earthquake or like the rug is constantly being pulled out from underneath you. You could feel like the Universe keeps kicking you (maybe when you’re down) like you’re its favorite soccer ball.

That could be the Universe trying to get your attention.

The frustrating part is when you ask the Universe or look within for guidance and you get silence. Nothing.

Why do we keep getting forced out of our comfort zones? Maybe to make us face something we don’t want to. Finally realizing this while in another place I don’t want to stay at for too long. Because it has the windows on only one side so no cross breeze. Or much of a breeze at all. Guessing the Universe doesn’t want me to get too comfortable here either. Still not my dream home and maybe the Universe knows that. The plus side of this is I’m learning that things I thought would send the Earth spinning off its axis, or worse, actually won’t.

What are your thoughts? Let me know in the comment section below.