Because you are a master at maintaining that machine, you keep your eye pressed to the scope and constantly at the ready for the next target to hit.

But what’s necessary in order for you to live?

Your focus on the Survival Checklist can cause tunnel vision, blacking out the aspects of life that make your soul soar.

The reason we don’t love those little superficial parts of ourselves is because we expect them to look a different way; a way that we’ve been told they are “supposed” to look based off of Cosmopolitan covers and Snapchat filters. We assume that if those body parts did look different, we could love them.

While comfort zones are famous for being cozy, there’s not much room for growth inside that small, safe box. And yet you stay, because the pressure to be perfect outside of that box is too overwhelming.