Expand your understanding of the ‘comfort zone’

It is unfortunate that most of us today are living in a state of uncertainty, anxiety — a kind of fear. Life is enveloped in one kind of scepticism or the other. Man constantly looks for a comfort zone — defined as a space where he feels at ease. He has a minimum level of anxiousness, vulnerability and insecurity.

Everyone creates his or her comfort zone which differs from person to person crafted by personal choice or as many believe, is destined which shifts from one frame to another. An infant finds ultimate solace in his mother’s arms, where he feels secure. His comfort zone changes as he grows.

It is a convention and rather common to be confined to our belief system relating to our comfort area which eventually becomes a deep value-based ethos. Most of us experience peace in our own niche and can get distraught by the slightest turbulence.

The alarming fact is that traits like anger, hurt and envy are justified as being normal. The fact of the matter is that there has to be a call for each one of us to diversify and stretch the horizon of our comfort zones leaving no room for negativity. Anger, envy, hatred can never be regarded as a comfortable states even if a person is at ease with them. Sometimes a greater effort is called for a serious realisation that your comfort zone does not become the reason for misery to people around, who may happen to be your own near and dear ones who you love so much.