Uncomfortable, but not stuck

Change in life feels like a conversation that we always want to avoid or that new job where we do not know anyone yet, or even a habit that we are trying to break free from but it keeps pulling us back. Growth feels like starting over at 30s, 40s, 50s and whenever you feel like, or saying no when you are always used to saying yes, or learning something out of your comfort zone.

Change and Growth both in life makes us feel uncomfortable, it feels like the ground beneath our feet is shaking and we have doubts if we will be able to stand still or not. It is never comfortable, but what's worse than being uncomfortable is getting stuck in the same rut. There is a job that we have, which pays our bills but drains us, but it's a routine and it has become kind of comfortable over a period of time, so even if it is exhausting us, we do not wish to change it. Some thoughts keep going on in our mind for years without any action, because we are scared of the uncertainties it ccarries. Change and growth can be surprising and we may not be prepared for it, whereas rut can be comforting because we know exactly what's happening and what's going to happen. It all feels very safe in the rut.

But when you are stuck in the same thing on a daily basis, over a period of time, our energy goes down, the zeal for life goes down. The curiosity of the mind starts getting quiet and we start accepting our environment as is. Growth happens in life with change and sometimes it can be like starting all over again, there is failure in the process of growth, there is acceptance of being wrong in growth and if the mind is not prepared to face it, growth is difficult in life.

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When I go to the gym after a long gap, my body hurts for the first few days, but after that it becomes comfortable if i keep doing the same exercise daily, until I challenge myself to increase my limits, then there is again discomfort that I feel. But with every discomfort my body gets stronger. Growth is also similar; it brings discomfort, but with every milestone achieved on the way we feel bigger and better.

Growth does cost us, it will cost us with our comfort, letting the old things go, mau be also losing some people on the way. But rut can cost us more; it can take away the better version of ourselves that we can become.

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