The myth of comfort 10/15/14

Comfort could easily be on almost everyone’s top ten, no top five, well maybe, top three generalized but with specific pursuits. Of course this means very different things to very different people. But the general persuasion is, whatever gives you that feelings, is what it is. I am addressing comfort not contentment, for there is a fundamental difference. The myth of comfort is much like the myth of happiness. Surely seeking happiness can be exposed by trial and error in short order for its error of ways. But comfort, as a pursuit, is slightly more difficult, primarily because the appraisal style is different. With happiness, the index is more frenetic. It has mixtures of people, relationships, expectations met, lack of troublesomeness, upbeat experiences, sort of ampy in a possibly sharable way. Comfort has a different agenda at work. It is a fulfilled perspective like furniture, gardens, neighborhood, or a series of coziness providing environments as a momentum of perception to answer for that concern. Comfort can be more easily pursued as purchase potential affirmed and delivered as well being relaxation surroundings, ease of people presence in the close to you world, an appreciation in reflection of what is immediately at hand. Now the myth of comfort is that acquisition of said props or environments or people in the immediate surround are the means to justify and account for the feeling of comfort when the essence of comfort is really a state of consciousness reflecting on a state of being. Time to notice that to be so, is only in answer to a false premise about work and effort and reward and deserved-ness, which are all party to a timeout for the surmise or realization of comfort at hand. Real comfort needs no timeouts or conscious review.  Seeking comfort as a payoff or reward undersells and displaces the value of being for being as consciousness. Creating stature as an answer begs the question, answer to what or to whom? Seeking comfort is an undisclosed negative affirmation because it has a hidden context in which the subtly of proving one’s worth become a display to self in which comfort is an index of proof. Therefore the myth has life and becomes sustainable as a just expression of your being even though there is unseen obligation to maintain its presence even though falsely sustained as a potential top three priority. Comfort is an expression of fatigue from efforting because the essential focus was not truly inspired and the calling was not authentic from within, thus the myth of comfort thrives, without serious deep consciousness appraisal.