Comfort zone is a very important thing in everyone's life. Regardless of whatever we do, we are often most comfortable in there. Someone once quoted that we as humans, are just like ships. When we're in our comfort zone, we are akin to ships docked at the port, definitely safe and sound, but not what the ship was initially built for. To conquer the stormy seas are the purpose of ships, for its passengers can never do it on their own. Similarly, in each and every one of our lives, we are not meant to stay within that little piece of space we love to snuggle it, but rather go out and get bashed by the stormy seas of life. How hard it is, however, to survive them? How much, does our fears hold us back? I guess its different for everyone. I often like to think of this in terms of singing. When we're in our comfortable range, hitting that series of notes seem simple. And the only difficulty is adding emotions into seemingly simple notes. However, when the song challengers us to go into a series of notes beyond our comfort range, how do we handle it? Do we try recklessly, risk running out of breath and going totally out of tune? Or do we attempt to take a step by step approach to slowly build up our range so that we can one day hit it comfortably? Or the one that I feel most people take, which is to just lower the key of the whole song? In life is there time to build up our experience so that we can enter past uncomfortable situations comfortably? Or are we supposed to recklessly get bashed and hope we learn the lesson so that it won't happen in the future? Probably just run away. They say it doesn't solve the problem. And I agree. But not facing it is often better, even if its only in the short term...