Comfort Zone and My 7 Cups Journey

as usual the word limit to post to my feed did not like my rant so i thought that i would try post it to a thread thingy so im sorry if ive posted this to the wrong place or im not supposed to do this :O

Okayyyy so we are doing this big clean of our house which is always cool because you find stuff that youve forgotten about but this time i found something that i though i might share…

i found my year 6 camp book (so i was like ish 10 when at the time) and i was looking through it and i found a poem (not by me but some super cool person whose name i dont know) that i can feel really resonates with me at the moment!

I used to have a comfort zone

where I knew I couldn't fail,

The same four walls of busy work

were really more like a jail

I longed so much to do the things

I'd never done before,

But I stayed inside my comfort zone

and paced the same old floor

I said it didn't matter

that I wasn't doing much,

I said I didn't care for things

like diamonds or furs and such

I claimed to be so busy

with the things inside my zone,

But deep inside I longed for

something special of my own

I couldn't let my life go by

just watching others win,

I held my breath and stepped outside

to let the change begin

I took a step and with new strength

I'd never felt before,

I kissed my comfort zone good bye

and closed and locked the door

If you are in a comfort zone

afraid to venture out,

Remember that all winners

were at one time filled with doubt

A step or two and words of praise

can make your dreams come true

Greet your future with a smile,

success is there for you!

So the poem was really cool i thought and then i turned the next page in my book and i saw my attempt at what i guess was a rendition of the poem from my 10 year old self :P so i would like to share with everyone NATALIES COMPHORT ZONE POME from when all of my poetry used to rhyme.

okay so here we go spelling mistakes, punctuation and all xD …

When I am in my comfort zone, I'm in a place I'm not alone

haveing fun with a friend, I want the time to never end.

Bugs and spiders I do not like, they make me hump and get a fright

When I am out of my comphort zone, sometimes i just want to go home.

This week on camp I know I must,

do diffrent things I do not trust.

No better person I want to become,

no better person I can be,

exept the great better ME!

So ignoring how cringe this is (and taking into account that I have a learning thingy that makes my reading and writing more suckkity sometimes), I think that there is definitely something that I (and maybe some other people too?) can learn from little me…

I am so fortunate now to be surrounded by amazing people here and the support I receive from everyone is more than I could ever ask for. Sometimes i think that we expect too much of ourselves and put unrealistic pressures on ourselves to reach an unattainable level of perfection that although may be desirable, would take away from our quirks that make us ourselves. I have some challenges coming up in the near future that are going to take more strength than i think i have sometimes, but i know that even if i have to step outside of my comphort zone, i have the support from other and myself and, as 10 year old me says, all that i can expect of myself is to try the hardest that i can and be the best me that i can be.

asdfghjkl this was so cheesy and i doubt that anyone will actually bother to take the time to read it but I AM FEELING THE FEELS RIGHT NOW so i dont really care :P

I was going to tag some peeps that are super cool and tell them all of the ways that they have inspired me and helped me immensely but this is waaayyyyyyyy longer than i thought it would be so instead I'm just going to tag them…

@amazingrea @JoyIntoDarkness @221Skye @arxxxh @ImL @Ace13 @Raylen @T1taniumx @pray4theheartless @professionalShoulder56 @annapanda @DatCoreo and there are so many more because everyone is so freaking amazing!!!