This happens to many adults when they look for their memories. Sometimes they remember an opportunity they once missed, considering it was the best at the time, but now they think it’s the biggest mistake of their lives. Are you right and it was really a mistake, or did you do the right thing by letting it go?In that case, why does this opportunity keep spinning in your head?
Often times, when we are presented with an opportunity in life, of whatever kind, the first emotion that brings us is animation, but then there is another feeling that almost always gains more strength than the first: fear.
- It is normal that in our lives we have certain things that make us feel comfortable; our friendships.
- Our work or the city in which we live are just a few examples.
- And all these things that make us feel safe are part of what we call the comfort zone.
- This area represents at the same time a great obstacle to the difficulty that prevents us from leaving it is usually the reason why we do not take advantage of an opportunity.
Consider an example: a person who has been living in a city for ten years and working for an advertising company. When he is offered a job to work at one of the best advertising companies, he refuses. Because? Because you don’t dare leave your comfort zone (city, friends, etc. ). The same would happen with a girl who is invited and rejected because they do not want to venture into the change that would bring a partner or at least try something with a person.
Some opportunities only appear once in a lifetime. And to know how to take advantage of it, you have to dare to overcome the barrier of fear and the unknown, and the barrier of comfort that implies the comfort zone. There is no doubt that opportunities are not always fruitful. It’s true that if we change jobs or try to maintain a relationship with someone, things may not work out. But how will we know if we don’t try?The answer is no.
We can even take this to a much more mundane topic. Let’s think about another example: that of a boy or a girl who likes a hairstyle a lot, but does not dare to do it because it would be like cutting their hair. He or she may go several months before they can go back to their old hairstyle if they don’t like the look of the new cut. What is better? Remember how you wish you had this hairstyle every time you see someone with it and you feel pain or you can say: Did I try it?
We can summarize it all in one sentence: it is better to regret something you did than something you did not do. Do not miss the opportunity of your life.