I clearly remember the day when I was reading an enthralling article in terms of solitude. In this period, I spent a lot of time on my own that I really enjoyed and I was so curious about how other people experience and think about the issue so I deliberately checked the comments as well. I have found one that immediately caught my attention. It was speaking about a movie that I found interesting, called Into the Wild. Watching that movie was the first step in my path towards self-awareness as it made me realise a lot about myself and the way I operate in my life.

Our brain is a special tool, indeed an experience warehouse that remembers a lot of meaningful issues in terms of our lives. We have built habits that we have been continuously practising for long without any concentration and if we always act in the same way, the outcome will definitely remain the same as well. But it has been long told that accomplishing a different result requires an entirely different approach. Continuous success is only available if we free our minds up, think outside the box and let new impressions influence our obsolete thinking with the help of rehearsing something different.

We all see new foods in our daily life that we try without thinking; we buy quite different clothes that are opposite from the ones hanging in our wardrobes; we visit new countries in order to know other cultures and to widen our horizons. These moments are, literally and figuratively, about the process as we step outside of our comfort zones. These actions don’t cause fear in us, we only see the reward when chosing these behaviours as we learnt throughout the years that even if the outcome of these events are not so rosy, it would not directly affect our self esteem.

But what happens if a goal or a dream with a larger implication on the self breaks the surface causing tension in our soul and make us unmoved? What will be the outcome if we start contemplating the major factors of the situation, instead of acting? How can we get rid of the tension that deliberately tries to pull us back within our familiar boundaries? And most importantly, in the moment of fear, how can we convince ourselves that we have just one life and we have to do our best to accomplish what we are dreaming about?

In this blog, I am going to deal with these kind of questions and invite you to a self-discovering journey where you will be able to realise the importance and operation of your apparently defending but indeed limiting system, called the comfort zone. This space will record my journey towards self-recognition and knowing that this is an experimental project of mine, I will keep this space very opened and honest with my findings.

If you have any thoughts and experiences you wish to share, please feel free to leave a comment or get in touch with me in the Contact section. I would be happy to read about other perspectives too so don’t hesitate to voice your opinions.