Written by: Aashutosh Pudasaini - 22002, Grade XII
Posted on: 24 September, 2021
Why bother living when in the end it all amounts to nothing? It doesn’t make any difference whether you spend your life sleeping on your mother’s couch lazy and jobless or living your life as a fancy suit-wearing entrepreneur. It’s like that catchy Linkin Park song ‘In the end, it doesn’t even matter’, as the destination is the same, DEATH, so why? What makes some people leave their comfortable bed at 5 am in the morning to sell milk while some people don’t even bother bruising their teeth? Is it this flawed system of assigning value above each individual's head called money or is it moral values? It is probably the first one, but I personally think it is to avoid “uncomfortability” to not ‘get the blues’.
Being Uncomfortable sucks. We have all been in the state of being “ Uncomfortable”, maybe someone forced you to give a speech to a large audience, or you had to get wet in the rain because you forgot your umbrella, or maybe your friend started talking about embarrassing things to a person like. We as a part of Society believe that any form of discomfort can be eliminated if we make enough money and it is true for the most part. Your shoes have gotten old and have holes in them that make you uncomfortable, throw some money, get a new one, discomfort GONE. What people don’t understand is it is ok to be uncomfortable. I used to hate being uncomfortable until I realized that the feeling uncomfortable was the most effective way to learn about yourself, you’ll learn about your strength, weaknesses, you’ll learn about what you’re you afraid of and most importantly you’ll learn about what makes you comfortable, you don’t grow when you are in comfortable state, when you’re comfortable you don’t progress anymore than you already have. You are fixed in one stop with no momentum in life. I am not telling you to go fight a monkey or anything. When you get an opportunity that you know will make you uncomfortable, say yes, take part in it. You never know you might end up enjoying it.
