When someone says don’t get comfortable it usually doesn’t mean good things. It’s usually a warning that if life right now is too good, beware, because it could change at any time. Although I have found this to be true, I have come to believe it’s a positive thing.
We get our energy from dealing with the things that come up in our lives everyday. It’s the tension, like a fine wire pulled taught, between being comfortable and uncomfortable that keeps us moving forward with an even keel. If extreme loss or fear strikes, our lives go spinning out of control and it takes months, even years, to regain that control. On the flip side, if we get too comfortable and nothing is garnering our attention, we slow down. We slow down so much that we become stagnant and eventually all forward movement stops. Complacency sets in. Once complacency sets in it can lead to depression in the form of “What is there to live for?” So comfort is not the goal here.
The goal is to keep the tension taught. Don’t gripe about things that need to be dealt with everyday such as bill paying (usually with not enough money to pay them all), getting the car serviced, running all those errands, etc. It is precisely these things that keep that tension taught. These things keep us thinking and moving. If everything we have to deal with were to suddenly disappear, including having to go to work, we would grind to a slow halt.
Instead of wishing some of these things away, I have learned to feel thankful they are there. Feeling thankful they are there changes my attitude. Changing my attitude about how I approach the problems daily life presents, changes my life. The tension of having to “get up, get out, and go do” everyday keeps up my mood and energy level, and more energy just begets more energy.
And so, as another day goes by, spending most of today at the mall hunting down necessities wasn’t so bad after all, and …I have written.
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