Project LIVE LIFE

You’re going on this trip with your friend. You’ve been really busy, stressed and under the pump the past weeks and you’ve been absolutely flat-out so you just decided to go up and away. You just know that you had go and escape for a while, then you’ll go back to reality.

You go on that trip with great anticipation. It’s your first trip after all of that stress! Then your plane is delayed. It was raining when you landed. The cab that’s supposed to pick you up didn’t show up. Nothing is going your way. Sucks, right? You’ve had a really stressful past few weeks and the one thing that you’re looking forward to turns out like this. You can’t blame anyone so you just heaved a sigh and decided to sleep it off when you get to the hotel. You can’t do anything anyways.

You woke up the next morning not expecting anything. You had breakfast with your friend. The sun shines real bright. For some reason, after that dreary day that you had, there is this good vibration in the air. Like good things are gonna happen. And surprisingly enough, it does. The day turns out really fun and you enjoyed everything!

You didn’t expect anything and you had been wonderfully surprised by the turn of events.

The seasons in our life are like that trip in more ways than one. At least for me anyways. You’re so done with your current season but you know you gotta get thru this. You’re really looking forward to what’s gonna happen next but you have absolutely no idea what it is. You have no idea if it’s gonna get better or worse. You tried leaping into the unknown but it didn’t go your way so you just decided to swallow the bitter pill and go back and just stayed where you are. It’s really not that bad anyways.

I recently came across this song called Numb Little Bug. There’s a part of the song that goes like this,

Do you ever get a little bit tired of life
Like you’re not really happy but you don’t wanna die
Like you’re hanging by a thread but you gotta survive
‘Cause you gotta survive

That song hit something! I listened to that song on repeat. (I still do. In fact, I’m listening to that song on repeat while writing this.) That song reminds me that I need to take that leap! That you have to take that leap!

You can’t stay in the rut forever. You can’t stay in your comfort zone forever. You gotta scrape enough courage and leap into that unknown. It might not go your way at the beginning. It might feel like your heading into something worse than where you’ve been. Like it’s not even worth it. But believe me, it will get better. It just have to. (I guess I’m convincing myself here as well. lol )

It’s really scary going out of your comfort zone. It’s called comfort zone for a reason. It might not be the best scenario that you want for yourself, but it’s familiar, it’s consistent, it’s stable. There is comfort in knowing that even though this is not something that you really want, you know what’s happening. You know what you gotta do next. Yes, it might not ignite that fire deep within, but who cares. Atleast you know what’s happening. Atleast you can control this part of your life.

There is nothing wrong with staying in your comfort zone, especially if you know that you actually are contented and happy. But if you’re not, you gotta take that leap. You just gotta. And I know it’s scary. There are people around you who’ll give you funny looks, who’ll think that you’re stupid and that you can’t do it. But you still have to do it. Scrape enough courage and take that leap. I know it’s more scary than exciting, and the journey is, well, really scary cause you have no idea what you’re doing and if you’re ever gonna get where you want to be, but believe me, it’s worth it.