"I find that life needs to be balanced between being outside your comfort zone and actually enjoying being inside of it," said Charlotte.
"Different environments provide different portions of these two sides of the coin, but even in ones that are already balanced, how exactly the two sides are being distributed can still be different.
"For example, wilderness communities in Indonesia, especially ones based in high school or early uni campuses tend to jam-pack their outside-the-comfort-zone portions early on in the beginning of the community's membership, but once that period is passed, the rest of the membership is just about enjoying the fun stuff.
"Other environments, however, such as good professional teams (at least I imagine them so) might provide a bit more ... dispersed, or more parallel distributions of being outside and inside the comfort zones.
"Having been in the former, I think I might enjoy the latter kind more—the idea of 'lifetime joy as soon as you pass certain hardship threshold' doesn't really appeal to me compared to sustained, parallel flow of both hardship and leisure.
"And this means next time I'm to decide whether or not to be involved in an environment (joining communities or whatever), it's not just about asking 'would I enjoy the activities I'd be doing here?' but also 'does it have a balanced proportion of hardship and leisure—and when it does, is it adequately evenly distributed?'
"That way I could hopefully live a bit closer to ... simply more enjoyable life as a whole."
"I see. That's some good reflection," said Chloe.
No comments:
Post a Comment