Getting out of the pit
Last few day I Plurk…and I Plurk a lot. Among many there was one conversation that touched me…It was about getting out of the shell or getting out of the comfort zone.
I would like to change the analogy of comfort zone as shell to a pit. A pit in the ground. Now imagine, when I fall into a pit and I am alone. I am of course afraid because I am alone. This is actually nothing like a sort of comfort zone or anything, this is pit. The pit is so deep that I can’t reach the top to escape. I just can see the bright light shining pale into the pit opening. Days I stare upward and keep on trying to climb the slippery sides without giving up, shouting for help.
Days turn weeks, weeks turn months, on and on. After all the falling, cuts, and injury, one day I just stop. Stop looking upward and start digging. I dig dig and dig deeper into the hard soil. I found nothing but the same soil the same pit. I shy away from looking upward any more. The idea of getting out is getting distant. Although sometime the shadows of people passing fall into the pit but hope has gone scarce.
Then up to a point, everything just stop, grinding to a halt. I sit idle. In complete idle. Then I lay there until I feel no breath any more to breath. Then it end.
What if… during the struggle…it happen to be someone realise that I am inside the pit calling for help. That particular someone cares and wants to help. And what if that someone helps. That someone doesn’t need to go down here and piggyback me outside. That someone just need to pull me using rope. What if…
Then things would be totally different. What I am saying is sometime it is not a comfort zone…it is not a shell…not a protective shell that keeps the outside world but it is a deep pit that one can only escape if someone from the outside helps. For the person on the outside…wouldn’t understand what it feel to be falling into the pit. It is rather a lonely experience and a painful one.
So when the falling person has stop hoping and stop struggling, that person will never go out again…