How to be Comfortable with Ourselves

Being at ease with what we have

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Describe yourself by using the things you love to do.

We’ve all been in positions where we are asked to introduce ourselves by describing our personality. Often, it’s in starting a new job, or a forced social event, where fun facts about ourselves are the name of the game.

Go ahead and try it. Sport? Reading? Long walks on the beach?

Almost every person, when pressed, will mention travelling.

We are obsessed with travel. And why not? The things we must see: beaches, monuments, buildings and people, to name a few.

But that urge for adventure, that something different is often a mask for something deeper and unsettling.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere

The best of one thing can never be experienced by simply dipping our toes in. By moving from place to place, in whatever medium, trying to absorb more than is possible, we end up absorbing nothing at all.

Unsettlement is a silent cognitive pandemic we believe to be unique to our era, but in reality, it has always plagued us.

“You do not tear from place to place and unsettle yourself with one move…