Hey there! It’s been a while since I wrote, but life sometimes just takes over and leads to chaos. Considering that some of us thrive on various levels of chaos, you’d think that it would be welcome. Well, some chaos is harder to accept because it tears apart your comfort level and leaves you swinging in the wind questioning it all.
Moving from a home you’re comfortable in to a situation that is unfamiliar is unsettling. Having your body break down, leaving you in throes of pain unimaginable is frightening. Trying to re-establish a life that is different from what you know can leave you floundering like a bird without wind. Having it all happen simultaneously can leave the strongest person wanting a teddy bear. For some, comfort is just too important. For others, the ripping apart of the seams from your own blanket of comfort a new blanket that embraces the you that wants to be.
The world today is in the process of having its blanket ripped apart. What was familiar has become questionable, because we do the rote actions with little thought behind them. When the thinking stops, then it’s impossible to avoid all of the potential pitfalls awaiting their opportunity to shred the material that holds society together. The thread for this blanket is full-bodied knowledge. Knowledge gathering is a life long pursuit that has little to do with going to school, and everything to do with seeing life as the ultimate schooling. No piece of knowledge is useless, because there is a place that it belongs to. Sometime that place is outside of the view of what we consider normal.
What we need to remember is that our normal will not always be THE normal. Life changes, the world changes, and so must we. If we choose our own personal comfort levels, then we are not only not growing as individuals or allowing those around us their potential to grow as well. How is that fair for anyone?
So, comfort may be the be all and end all of existence. But it’s the process of ripping apart that allows potentially new fabrics to come into being. We have more than enough materials all around us to make beauty be more than skin deep. The question is are there enough adults out there to sew the pieces into an even more beautiful piece of life?
And on a side note: Don’t ever take your body for granted. It has an uncanny knack of reminding you that it really is your temple, and the only one that you’ll ever have. If you feel strange symptoms, don’t ignore them and hope that they’ll simply go away. Being comfortable isn’t the same as being healthy and whole.
