Is Comfort a Drug?

When you are comfortable you tend to get lazy, this is a bit addictive as the mind tends to relax and be happy in the current situation. Once you get used to this comfort zone it is very difficult to get out of it as it becomes addicting. It is not that comfort is a bad thing, one needs to analyse when and where one feels comfortable. Being comfortable in the company of your near and dear ones is completely different from being comfortable with regards to one’s career.

When one is comfortable in the company of near and dear ones, it means one has a sense of security and safety; whereas when it comes to one’s career then the comfort zone is where a person’s dreams go and die — that becomes the tombstone of the individual’s career! It is said that if you give weak persons consistent stimulation, good food, cheap entertainment then invariably they will throw their ambitions right out of the window.

Anything that titillates your lower senses and lulls you into a false sense of security, making you feel comfortable where in reality you should be alert, that is seriously not good for you. One needs to be alert and aware about being led up the garden path, because if you are not alert you will end up being a coach potato doing nothing to rise up the social ladder, while at the same time maintaining one’s sense of equilibrium.

Meditation helps you stay alert, focused, balanced and with a purpose in life. With meditation you easily accept what life has to offer and by staying in the present moment you invariably end up putting your best foot forward in all aspects of life. If you enter a comfort zone through meditation, then you make meditation your hobby and with that the entire concept of comfort being bad for you turns turtle — as you become comfortable and happy with whatever life offers you. Let us all be comfortable and joyous in a positive way in life as opposed to becoming addicted to comfort by becoming lazy and indolent!