Comfort zone

These things comfort me:

• a good nights sleep
• watching my favorite tv series/movies
• a nice hug
• a good book
• videoke marathon
• a good picture taken by me
• a smile such as this...

"He smiled understandingly much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced or seemed face: the whole eternal world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that at your best, you hoped to convey" - Anne by L.M. Montgomery

• and this...

The Final Analysis
By Mother Theresa

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered
Forgive them anyway,
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway
What you spend years building, someone could destroy ovenight;
Build anyway
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Be good anyway
Give the world the best you have and it will never be enough
Give the world the best you've got anyway
You see, in the final analysis
It is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway

• and the fact that I'm no saint
• and I found this poem I wrote fifteen years ago

I want to ride on a bus
one moonlight night
that runs carefully yet fast
no traffic that will interrupt

Or, sail beyond the sea
with the breeze of wind
touch my brownish skin
and sway the strands of my hair

Or maybe, just lie on the shore
and predict what the future instore
learn--from the failures in the past
rejoice -- to things I've done right

Damn. Suddenly, I'm hungry. Got to grab something to eat.

And sometimes you have to get out of your comfort zone.