This topic made me remember one funny post I came across online sometime last year, so the person posted a video of himself and added a writeup to it, here is the writeup "I'm in my comfort zone and I'm suffering like this, just imagine I leave what would happen?" When I saw this, I laughed the hardest and couldn't laugh alone since there is love in sharing so I showed it to my friend, and we laughed our lungs out "joking".
They say "Leave your comfort zone at your own risk" Most of us didn't want to leave, it felt more like we were forced to leave the moment adulthood responsibilities stepped in. A comfort zone can be seen as a place (like our homes filled with family members) but then it goes beyond that, it can also be referred to as a psychological state that makes us feel happy and at ease with ourselves.
Leaving our comfort zone can be very hard often because it leaves us with precarious and unpredictable occurrences. The outside world is always scary because I don't know what I'd be faced with but then how would I know it's scary nature when I'm always in my comfort space? There is a thing people normally say "People who are inside know a lot more about the outside world than those who are experiencing the outside world" That's known as assumption.
I've left my comfort zone before when I got admitted into a higher institution, first I was a bit anxious but then my school wasn't that far from home so I traveled back to the house whenever I wanted, I won't call that leaving my comfort zone. The actual time I left my comfort zone for a faraway land was two years back when I got posted to the north to serve my nation.
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I'm based in the southern part of the nation, so imagine the distance to the north, I'm not gonna lie, I was a bit scared at first but then the courageous words I got from my family built a level of " I can do it mindset in me" or maybe they just wanted to leave the house (who knows).
After a while, I became very excited about leaving because traveling isn't always about the fun but also the eye-opening experience. Exploring was something I'd always wanted to do, when this posting came I was very happy but sad as well. So when I got to the north, life was different from when I was home. I was faced with a different environment with people who spoke different languages.
I was faced with the responsibility of creating a connection with someone I could be talking to easily, someone I could share things with, I also learned to embrace uncomfortable situations because the first three weeks of serving my nation aren't always easy, you'd be faced with certain responsibilities that can't be averted.
At one point, I became faced with my fears and couldn't look for any shortcut to avoid them, so I faced them head-on, the one fear I had growing up was "public speaking". Serving my nation at that moment made me face my fear of public speaking and increased my confidence. I became very proud of myself after speaking in public like that, it felt more like my greatest achievement during that period.
That's the major highlight of what I learned when I left my comfort zone.
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