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[pantryslut]

Comfort is sometimes underrated. Comfort makes an excellent starting point and an excellent retreat. Comfort can provide the psychic space to consider all your options, including ones you couldn't see before when things were more tense or more frantic. It's called 'breathing room' for a reason -- take a breath, deep and slow. Comfort means you can take a step back before taking a step forward.

Comfortable clothes allow me to move more freely. Comfort food can be nutritious, too. Going out in the cold with warm gloves isn't just cozy, it's smart. I will persist if I am comfortable, and cut things short if I am not. You don't have to stay comfortable all the time. But seeking comfort isn't always settling for less, either. Sometimes, it's part of seeking even more. And sometimes, it's just about admitting to vulnerability -- and taking care of it. Taking care of myself.

Comments

[fattest.livejournal.com]

Here's to comfort!

[mollena.livejournal.com]

in. Sometimes I forget that what seems like haphazard bullshit to one person is precisely within the comfort zone of another. ANd that it IS OK to feel good and cosy. :-)

Happy Solstice & Christmas & Kwanzaa & Chanukkah & Eid! ;-)

love

Mo

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

The people who criticize comfort seem to me to be the self-righteous "I am here to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable!!!!", the overly-macho, or bossy people who think everybody else should stop complaining but it's OK for them to complain.

Why do they design dress up clothes to be so uncomfortable? Back when I was little, dress up meant itchy scratchy lace, even on underwear. Talk about misery!

[ginoushka.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this. I need the reminder right now.

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

*agrees comfortably*

*wonders what sparked this post*

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

A random comment in someone else's LJ, as it happens. And lots of background thinking that's been going on for a while.

[irontongue.livejournal.com]

I think Wendell Berry famously wrote either an anti-comfort essay or an anti-comfort book, reading about which made me want to smack him. Nice for you, privileged anti-computer white guy whose wife famously types your work for you.