C....is for complacency

Over the past few weeks I have had numerous conversations with people including my friends, family members, associates, colleagues, students, etc...a common theme that has reoccured throughout these conversations is that of complacency... It seems that everywhere I turn, observe, listen and learn someone in someway is talking about complacency they are experiencing within themselves and within their relationships with others.

What exactly is it about levels of comfort that can set in so quickly and drive people to become complacent? When is complacency good and when is it bad? At this point in m life, with the things that I want to accomplish, I don't think complacency is good for me at all. It seems that it would somehow impede my personal growth & progress. I simply don't want to settle in any facet. Professionally, I have specific goals and plans that I seek. Personally, there are also goals and specific things that I have been doing for overall wellness and happiness, and then in my personal life I am enjoying building and maintaining stronger platonic relationships and one day hope to engage in another romantic one as well.

With all of these goals and achievements left to obtain, complacency would just about ruin me. I have found myself settling into the "comfort" of routine and success before and ultimately it led to a sense of not being as happy and fulfilled as I originally thought I would be. I cannot rest if I feel that even the "best" that I have done is not as extraordinary as it should be. From the outside in, people often truly believe that I "have it all together" but from the inside out I cannot even articulate how much unsettled I feel. I want to, need to, have the responsibility of, and the true desire to do and be so much more....

"C" cannot stand for complacency for me. It simply is not enough to have the things that I want, if I have to sacrifice too much, over-compromise or settle to obtain and maintain it. If this means that it will take me a little longer to grow professionally, personally, and even romantically then I guess I will just have to lean more to my faith and patience.....