We all have the ability to CHANGE the way we feel, regardless of the outside causes of negative feelings. Even while in high levels of pain, I've been able to find a niche of feeling relief, and then focus on that. Lo and behold, pain levels diminish.
I argue that the stressors of life have rendered so many of us wrapped up in economic concerns and the relational backwash of it, that we are unable to pull our heads out of you know where. It seems the faster technology pushes us to go, the less amount of attention we all have to live full, expansive lives, unencumbered by the worries of modern life.
Getting out of your comfort zone is a misnomer. We change when things get uncomfortable. However, it is possible to make a choice to change within a comfort zone, too. Change CAN be fun and exciting, and doesn't have to be pain and suffering.
In Western technological cultures, language is used to define and express outward agreed-upon realities, commonly ignoring or discounting personal versions of reality.
As I shoveled on through what sometimes seems like miles of decisions, judgments, conclusions, choices and self-evaluations, the image of a huge bureaucracy came to mind. And this huge bureaucracy was making up who I think I am, or have been.