THE COMFORT ZONE

FOOLS RUSH IN 2.0

I have put too much effort into exploring the paranormal. Intriguing and enticing, and real as it is, the vast truth to be mined is far beyond my current abilities. I have discovered a certain meaningful discomfort in my quest to learn more than I am currently prepared to learn.

It is good to learn your current limits.

Discomfort has meaning. It is a caution. Old time athletic coaches, especially football, proudly and foolishly proclaimed, “No pain, no gain”. Pain is discomfort, and it carries a message of caution.

Ok to close in on the painful zone. Not ok to plunge into it. Pain says, “Hold on. You are about to do harm to yourself”. It cautions us to back off. OK to get to the point of feeling pain or other discomforts, not ok to push too far into it. Ignore the caution of pain and discomfort, and you risk doing self-inflicted harm to yourself.

Same is true with psychological discomfort. It is the exciting, intriguing subjects that draw us to push the limits. Ok to push. Not ok to overdo it. This is now where I am in my studies of the paranormal. It is beginning to preoccupy me, to make demands on me. Not good.

Too much of a good thing quickly can become a bad thing.

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As I write thoughts are coming to mind. How did I allow a good thing, study of paranormal, to become a less than good thing? I had failed to adequately appreciate my limits of understanding in this area. Of course…