Thanks Erika. The difference between the two definitions is interesting. I think the German definition fits this article much better.
And the bird on a branch metaphor is perfect for the scale of the crisis that aids development as well. :)
I don’t think people look at how beneficial it can be to step out of your comfort zone. We become comfortable and complacent all too easily.
A crisis pretty much forces a person out of their comfort zone. It’s kind of like forced self improvement. Although sometimes people don’t take the chance to improve themselves.
I can tell that you don’t think negatively of others anymore. You are way too positive a person for that type of view point. :)
You are more than welcome. I do enjoy talking to you.
Yes, the comfort zone also is a very good picture. I am catching myself making it too comfortable in it :)
To please oneself if it is a form of vanity facilitated by convenience: That makes me think of Herod. Or what was the Roman decadent emperor's name again?
If you exaggerate with the beautiful pleasant things, you end up in a lazy sluggishness. And if you exaggerate with asceticism, you become a bitter envy that denies all the others their amenities.
Cheers to all crisis which lay behind us and cheers to the ones which are still ahead. They will get smaller and maybe fade out to just hourly or minutely ones and we'll say to them: "Oh, even you shall pass." :)
Minutely crises, I think we'd all go insane. :)