It's very easy, when you've been hurt, to crawl into your comfort zones, tuck them around you and try to pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist. And for a short while they can help you by giving you a safe place to heal. But I think you're right about them becoming traps. There's a lot of things I haven't tried because I've been scared of what might happen, because they were outside my comfort zone. However, partly perhaps because I've gotten older and wiser ;) or because my stubborn nature has overcome my fears, I've been trying more things that I was too scared to before. I won't say that they've all turned out brilliantly, and there's at least one that's causing me a little stress right now, but others have brought more happiness and excitement into my life than I would have thought possible before.
It is still a struggle to get past the fear. But now at least I'm trying to make the attempt. (With just occasional dips into my comfort zones to give me the strength to try again).
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Date: 2007-10-29 02:24 am (UTC)It is still a struggle to get past the fear. But now at least I'm trying to make the attempt. (With just occasional dips into my comfort zones to give me the strength to try again).
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