May 2nd 2016,
Never stay comfortable. This is a big idea and to be honest a hard one to keep under one’s belt unless they live in New York City and then still some. Life is just too trivial for you to not get caught up in the comfortability of it all. Between Youtube, Netflix and T.V, the couch and much more, too many people tend to just get sabotaged by media and pizza and not be engaged with their lives. I am not that person… to a degree. I probably have spent a whole month at a time in my life on the couch “Slooching”* but this new job I have has kick-started me into action which hasn’t left me stuck watching reruns of Seinfeld.
I bring this up this idea of trying to get outside of my comfort zone because tonight at dinner my dads brought up the idea of moving. I’m not completely against the idea but at first I wanted to stay in my comfort mode. I have moved before and it’s obviously notorious for not being an easy process. I lost my mother in a fight with colon cancer almost 3 years ago and as a result I moved to Evanston, Illinois in 7th grade.
This is a perfect example of a time when I stepped outside of my comfortability and had to undergo what was (at the time) a radical change in my surroundings. I was born and raised in a little town known as Hinsdale. A perfect town. Seriously, if you ever get the chance, or have the feeling to visit the 1950s. The downtown area is white suburban “comfortable” as it gets. This, contrasted with Evanston, which among all of my high school sports divisions was known as being the most ghetto of all schools and northern suburban cities.
Evanston isn’t a city but that is where I might be moving. Somewhere right in the middle of the city of Chicago. When it was first brought up as I said I was hesitant, but the more I think about it, it might be right in the next step in my life. All of my friends, which took me a long time to accumulate and find the fit for who I am as a person live in Evanston (Except for the Homies in Hinsdale Shoutout!) So I was worried about how I was going to see them. Hopefully I earn enough this summer to buy a car. RANGE ROVER…psych.
Anyways, we will see what happens and I plan to keep a positive attitude towards change in my life. Today while I was working my boss told me that he was thinking about promoting me to be a waiter, but then continued “If you shave that sh*t off your face. So no shave May may not be a thing.
*Slooch – To lounge around
Ben Bonkoske 