Not So Comfort Comfort-Zone…
- Newsweek journalist Sudip Mazumdar
That paragraph keeps bothering me since I was reading it in The New Paper last Friday. It was actually comparing the "Slumdog Millionaire" with another Oscar winning movie "Born into Brothels", which I have also already seen.
The article discussed about one of the real life characters, Preeti Mukherjee who eventually chooses to go back to the red light district to become a prostitute despite all the opportunities offered to her to change her life.
What is disturbing my mind the most is the writer choice to use the phrase "comfort zone" in describing slum and brothels life. What is so comfort about that?
But then I realize, "comfort zone" is the state of mind and doesn’t have any association to physical condition. But then again I also realize that basically, humans are frightened whenever they are trying to step outside their comfort zone with all uncertainty heading ahead.
So then, it is not only slum life that can kill our dream, but also our current comfort zone, if it keeps scared us to depart from it. And maybe, only those, who are brave enough to step outside their comfort zone, will be able to achieve a fairy tale ending.
