Log #5

  I love a YouTuber called Alex very much. He lived in America at his early age and after he came back to Taiwan, he found himself fall in love with this country. Thus, he called himself “Taike.” He has his own YouTube Channel called TKstory. He is a director and he focuses a lot on the social issue such as environmental protection and the care of the underprivileged. A week ago, he posted a video named “Comfort Zone Challenge.” In the short video, he mentioned that not everyone was born to be outgoing and confident. However, it can be trained to become a person with these personalities. First, we should walk out from our comfort zone. He wakes up early and goes jogging every day, and he says good morning to everyone he meets. Although some may consider him strange and ignore him, there are still a lot of people reply good morning to him with an energetic and kind voice. Besides, he lies down on the sidewalk at Ximen, which is crowded with people. At first, he feels nervous and his heart beats fast but he gradually gets used to those strange eyes from pedestrians.

Eight years ago, I tried hard to get out from my comfort zone because I didn’t want to experience the same misery I encountered in my elementary school. I changed my personality from shy to outgoing; I changed the way I make friends such as being nice and friendly to everyone. I learned to be humorous and learned to be independent. Though it was not a good change, I no longer trust people easily and I tell myself that any of my friends may leave me one day without reasons. Thus, I started to go eating at a restaurant by myself, go shopping by myself, and go traveling by myself. (Though until now I still feel nervous in a crowd of people and I always look at the ground when walking on the road) The process was hard, extremely hard, but I was happy that I successfully became a new person. Like Alex wrote down in his video “Your greatest fear carries your greatest growth,” if I did not experience bullying in my childhood, I would not have become the person who I am today. Now I have no problem with my friendship and even my friends can’t see any clues of my past from my behavior and talk. However, now I am again in my comfort zone with a new me and sometimes I tell myself it’s another time for me to break it since “Courage is like a muscle, strengthened only by use.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgjA_JnIBPc