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 It was never designed to be comfortable. It was always designed to break you.
Comfort creates complacency.
Complacency is ignorance, ignorance that everything you have and everything you believe you are, cannot, in one brief moment, all change.
All it takes is…
One spilt coffee
One failed rep
One skipped mortgage payment
One time getting fired
One bank account freeze
One car accident
If it is comfort you seek; to what end?

The fat cat only stops eating when there is no food left, or when he dies.
A comfortable life will still result in death and you may instead pass that eventual break to the next generation.
Or, perhaps, you see the ‘beauty in the breakdown’, you experience each break knowing that it is part of the whole; life as a layered experience of failure, learning, success and growth.

You will break. 
How you embrace the change is what creates that beautiful life.
(Not comfortable… beautiful)