This I Believe: Discomfort

        The essay "Discomfort" by author Dan Libman, was published to This I Believe http://thisibelieve.org/essay/108184/. The author of this essay describes how he goes about his normal day as a teacher and once he gets home, "I slip on my gym shoes and a sweatshirt and revel in comfort earned from a full day of wearing constricting clothing." He continues to go on and talk about he learned this principle while preparing for a week-long bicycle trip in the rocky mountains and how you cant always prepare to be comfortable and you will always experience discomfort. For his trip, he couldn't prepare for all the weather conditions so no matter what you wont always be in your in your desired comfort. The author states after going through on his trip he no longer paying attention to comfort. He began to recognize other things along the way of his trip that he wouldn't normally if he had been in comfort. After noticing many things on his trip he says "This is something i could never had internalized had i been at home, had i been reading in my easy chair, had i been comfortable.

        

        While reading this essay, at the end of a long day, you always want to change into something that makes you comfortable. It is always nice to be able to relax in comfort after a hard, long day of work. I myself do agree that once you are uncomfortable for awhile like he was for a week, being comfortable becomes unrecognizable. You start to pick out things that you wouldn't normally pay attention to and that take your mind off of being comfortable. Stepping outside of your comfort zone really expands your mind and you experience and see new things. Its not often that people go out and make themselves uncomfortable by doing something and realizing just what it is that can adjust them to what they aren't used to and what different experiences they can live that take them out of their daily schedules to see what they miss when they are in their "comfort zone".