Comfort in discomfort
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(We don't appear to have our category set up for this month's topic yet, but I'll forget this if I don't write it down.)
I've been told that I'm resistant to change, that I never move beyond my comfort zone. But I'd argue that I find my comfort is stepping outside my comfort zone.
Take, for example, my most recent move. Two years ago, I moved to Seattle. I had no job lined up. I knew a grand total of two people in the city. I made this decision to move, and a month later was in Seattle. I knew nothing about Seattle when I moved, except that it was very green, and Microsoft was somewhere in the area.
It wasn't my first move to a new state, but it was my first solo move across the country to a place not much like home. It's been a great chance to enjoy a new culture, to meet people I wouldn't have met otherwise. It's been a chance to explore who I am, to reconnect with myself.
I think it's actually more comfortable for me to seek out things outside what I know because I love to learn. It's more likely that staying inside a comfort zone would be far more uncomfortable for me. But I've never been content staying in any one place for very long, be it physically or mentally. I always want to explore, to experience, to learn.
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