YOU ARE CAPABLE O F MORE THAN WHAT YOU THINK”- BY E O Wilson

Every one of us, like to live in our own comfort zone. It is the best zone in the world for each individual. But if you stay in your comfort zone always, then its time to say goodbye to growth, self -actualization. Staying within the parameters of what we already know provides the benefit of certainty but at a price. Here I would like to quote two beautiful lines of the famous writer John Keats from his poem Ode on a Grecian Urn “heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter”. Yes…..it is really a fact that what we see or face today is good or beautiful but what is waiting us can be something more good….

We can think of existential anxiety as a monster who patrols the boundaries of your comfort zone , threatening us with annihilation if we try to step beyond these boundaries. It can be useful to realize that while the purpose of anxiety n nature was to protect our physical survival by making us painfully aware of the physical threats,things have grown more complicated in the modern world,and much of the existential anxiety we feel is symbolic.it is our unconscious fear that keeps us away from taking the risk, it is the fear of shame, failure etc.So the only thing that we need to think in a risk taking situation is that “I AM CAPABLE OF MORE THAN I THINK” or” YOU ARE CAPABLE OF MORE THAN YOU THINK”.The simple act of stepping outside of our comfort zone, win, lose, or draw, will expand the boundaries of that comfort zone as we realize that the consequences of things going badly are not nearly as bad as we feared .

VISMAYA K