Do you realise you can be suffocated by too much comfort? Yes, it is possible! Usually, we conclude being constrained and depressed because of the troubles and crisis we face and experience. Too much of comfort can be silent trap. Staying in a cushy routine breeds complacency, dulls your ambition, and slowly suffocates your true potential. If you look carefully, growth, purpose, and meaning begin only when comfort ends.
Today we get to see many parents lavish and even force satisfaction to their children without properly balancing the responsibility matrix. The result, children especially the teens and young people, evade responsibilities of any kind. Overindulging children — providing too much, too soon, and doing tasks for them which they are very much capable of doing independently — deprives them of essential life lessons like responsibility and delayed gratification. This "soft structure" often leads to a strong sense of entitlement, learned helplessness, and a reliance on comfort. Comfort devoid of responsibilities can be suffocating overtime. As we are all aware that this age is infested and addicted to social media. One can spend hours doing nothing but just scrolling and consuming unwanted worthless stuff. People call it rest. This digital age has redefined comfort.
A book by Michael Easter, “The Comfort Crisis”, Easter makes the case that modern life may be too cushy for our emotional and psychological well-being. When all our most fundamental needs (food, warmth, safety) are so thoroughly and perpetually satisfied, he says we not only lose our appreciation for what we have but we also “move the goalposts” and fixate on social comparisons that make us miserable.
There is a parable in the Bible called Prodigal son where Jesus enlightens the people with the story of a son who sought comfort and pleasure in his term. His purpose and goal in life were comfort and happiness. And he used all means to pursue it. It talks about two sons who lived in the father’s house comfortably and with all luxury. Soon the younger son felt there can be something out there which can guarantee more pleasure and comfort. So, the younger son demanded his share from his father and left home in pursuit of pleasure and comfort. The story states that he spent all the money with his friends on wine and women. When all his money extinguishes, he is gradually overtaken by crisis. Unable to handle his crisis for long he works as a servant and goes through a humiliating experience. But at one point he realizes his folly and comes back to his senses. He remembers the true clean comfort of his father’s house and takes a decision to return.
True comfort is found in finding your purpose in life. Travel for career and business is not wrong unless it aligns with your calling to follow the Saviour Christ Jesus who has promised life and life in abundance. When you find the purpose in God, your journey will start becoming visible to you. The true purpose is knowing the true God, Christ Jesus who has promised life and eternal pleasures. The Bible states, “The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives.” (Psalms 37:23 Bible). Comfort is not your end destiny but your journey with Christ because He holds your future.
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