Whatever your Comfort Zone consists of, you pay a huge price for it. Life provides endless possibilities, but along with them comes pain. If you can’t tolerate pain, you can’t be fully alive. There are many different examples of this. If you’re shy and avoid people, then you lose the vitality that comes with a sense of community. If you’re creative but can’t tolerate criticism, then you avoid selling your ideas to the marketplace. If you’re a leader but you can’t confront people, no one will follow you. The Comfort Zone is supposed to keep your life safe, but what it really does is keep your life small.
This is a new era of kindness and real love. There’s no space for anything less.
I need to learn
the art of
letting go;
of my failures
my shortcomings
my mistakes.
I need to learn
that I am human.
I am not perfect,
but I have
infinite potential.
- a.k.
the last time i saw you, it was winter and i called you a hurricane. i held your hand and you convinced me to take off my jacket. the cold never shook me as hard as you did anyways. you knew that.
and out of all the goodbyes i never got to say, yours would have been the hardest. yours would have taken me years. i had two weeks to learn how to collect myself, i wasn’t allowed to cry at the airport. i haven’t been back since. i think i’m just afraid it’ll smell like home.
so when i see you again, i bet you’ll have changed your hair. who knows what it’s been through since you left. and i bet you still make that face when someone says they love you, i bet you still have those sharp teeth. i bet it’ll still hurt when you sink them into me.
the hurricane series, a.m