(May 21, 2013 at 10:14 am)Tonus Wrote: I think it is fear, moreso than laziness, that will keep a person from stepping outside of his or her comfort zone...
Hi Tonus,
First, I should say your response is one of the most pleasing and joyful one to read. It is a very logical and full of positive ideas.
Secondly, I am sorry for writing my response after a substantial amount of time. I was trapped in other activities, which had not let me concentrate over this forum.
You truly said comfort is something that nobody wants to lose at any cost. In fact, comfort is one of the most common types of pleasures we have in our lives. The least form of comfort is when a hungry person gets something to eat. The extreme form of comfort is when someone gets a possession over other human beings. Human desires are not limited to some boundary wall but it is more than that. Jean-Paul Sartre had depicted this human faculty in a very nice way:
“Human reality is the pure effort to become God without there being any given substratum for that effort, without there being anything which so endeavors. Desire expresses this endeavor.”
Page 576 Being and Nothingness
He continues on page 599
“Thus, my freedom is a choice of being God and all my acts, all my projects translate this choice and reflect it in a thousand and one ways, for there is an infinity of ways of being and of ways of having.”
Therefore, desire of having comfort has no standards. Demand of comfort varies from person to person. Main idea here is to have a control over uncontrollable desires. Our physical bodies are like wild horses. Our safety depends over how good we control over our desires. Freedom is only good in an accompaniment of patience. It is the patience, which keeps us peaceful in a society.
You are right on the point; most of us have a fear to lose our comfort. However, the after effect of this fear appears within our characters as a kind of repulsion from others. This behaviour provokes doubts, which are the main cause of misconception and misunderstanding. All problems among naïve people are due to these misconceptions about each other’s ideologies. Of course, black sheep in the society always sit in ambush for such misconceptions, which provides them better environment to have unjust possessions without any limits.
The best way (in my opinion) is to give some room to rather discomforting ideas for the purpose of check and balance over our own behaviours. Many times in our lives, it happened that the concepts at which we were looking pessimistically were turned out to be most favourable after we give ourselves a chance to ponder over them. It is totally against the logic and intellect to be credulous or incredulous based on our first impressions. We should give a chance to our own beings to be flexible in order to adjust even in intimidating circumstances. Flexibility in our thoughts always gives us opportunity to look into new dimensions of life. Stiffness is only the cause of a break and destruction.
For a child injection is always a fearful thing as it gives instantaneous pain. It is because the child is unaware of the higher benefits of having an injection. He only concentrates over the immediate cause of the needle.
cheers
