Outside the Comfort Zone

A poem

Challenged to step outside of my comfort zone, I thought I needed to change up my tone, add some rhyme: don’t have an ounce of that in my bone.

Rhyming has always been something difficult for me, but would writing still be fun if it all came easily? If I get stuck, truthfully, I’m consulting a rhyming dictionary.

There’s no shame in starting something new, something creative, something out of the blue, something enough to surprise me, the writer, too.

So I opened that word document, started to tippity-tap thinking that ideas would come to me in a snap, knowing that striving for perfection can itself be a trap.

And I wrote and I wrote, until I wove together this piece, until the ideas the flowed began to decrease, until I felt like I laid them at peace.

Thank you so much to Galit Birk, PhD for encouraging me to step outside of my comfort zone, and congrats on your one-year anniversary on Medium!

Here is her original piece:

Tagging Jessie Waddell | Laurie Perezz | Alex Godleyy | Michael Hollifield | Alexandra Forsytha | Katrina Bos | Trista Signe Ainsworth | Sahil Patel if you’re up to it!

Hi, I’m Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) and this actually came easier than I thought! Though, I think, stepping further outside this comfort zone might be to work on the rhythm within the lines themselves in addition to keeping the rhyming structure. We all start somewhere, right?

Hop down the rabbit hole? 🐰🕳

^ with Jay Avery