The other day I was reading this phrase that said something like this "If you are afraid of falling in love, then why are you here" I don't remember the phrase and I cannot find it, but what stood out to me was the fact that the phrase was inviting people out of their comfort zone.
We all have a comfort zone, sometimes we don't even know we have it until someone points it out, it can go from always drinking the same tea, to just hanging with certain people, to just not daring to do anything that's new.
It's not bad to have a comfort zone, what is bad is staying in there for too long, there are people out there that can do anything and nothing and don't regret it, there are other people that are more cautious and think things through a little bit more and there's people that want to stay in the same place until the others come back, that's when having a comfort zone becomes a problem.
We often hear this phrase "Life is about taking risks" or "Life is about learning to say yes and no" well they both are true but we don't understand them until we have to make a choise ourselves.
Putting our feelings out there or doing something spontaneous can be a scary thing, we never know if we are going to get our hearts broken or if something is going to go wrong, so wrong to end up in jail, and that's what we are afraid of, making the same mistakes we made in the past, making new bigger ones or simply of not knowing what's to come.
The hardest thing is always to take the first step, to decide what are you going to do and having people off your back telling you to get out of your comfort zone makes it worst, sometimes we forget that what it may seem like something easy, for other can be quite hard and difficult to do. Never pressure anyone into doing anything. If you are being pressured, say no and stand by it, rushing is not going to make you any good, it can do quite the opposite thing, you can end up hating it and wanting to go back.
Just think about it for a moment, you want to be the person that can tell their grandchildren all of this amazing stories, or you want to be the one that was too scared to live that has nothing to tell, life is about those little thing, those little challenges, those risks we are willing to take, we don't have to put our lives in danger, we just have to think outside of the box.