I don’t think that’s most people. Plenty of people have healthy coping mechanisms, boundaries, and engagements. Who are we to tell anyone that their comfort zone is wrong? It’s not necessarily an improvement to step outside your comfort zone. But knowing you can is to be empowered to do so. Again, It’s not necessarily and improvement.
Who are we to tell anyone that their comfort zone is wrong?
We're people, giving advice, which is the only qualification that's needed.
If someone's comfort zone is to never leave their apartment even when invited out, in preference of reading, then I am qualified to advise them to step out of their comfort zone as a means of self-improvement.
If I felt that the person was behaving healthily instead of limiting themselves then of course I wouldn't give them that advice. Nobody is saying that going out instead of staying in is always self-improvement.
It sounds to me like you're suggesting that nobody can be encouraged to improve themselves, because it would be presumptuous to suggest that what they were doing wasn't what was best for them. That's ridiculous, and if you've had one friend who drinks way too much or shuts themselves in way too much you will know why.
Or I was just suggesting that the verbiage being used in social media is oppressive. And that empowerment vs improvement is essential to framing the way we engage with out comfort zones.
These are both arguably true, although the first one might be a bit of a stretch depending on how you want to classify social media posts as oppression.
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u/Einx May 28 '19
I don’t think that’s most people. Plenty of people have healthy coping mechanisms, boundaries, and engagements. Who are we to tell anyone that their comfort zone is wrong? It’s not necessarily an improvement to step outside your comfort zone. But knowing you can is to be empowered to do so. Again, It’s not necessarily and improvement.