”Contest| When I Left My Comfort Zone - My Turning Point

A lot of things happens to us and it would only take a determined mind to leave the comfort zone. Just like the name implies, we want to be comfortable and it’s quiet challenging to leave our comfort zones because we do not know what awaits us in front but taking the bold step to leave our comfort zones are always one of the rewarding experiences we would have in life.

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The decision may not be easy and we would encounter so many things to try to deter us but if we persevere, we will always come out on the other side of the tunnel bigger and better.

I want to tell in brief the story of a part of my life that I am not so proud of and many may not even want to share this kind of things but it’s only a proof that am way past it and am a better person all because I decided to leave my comfort zone.

I was in a relationship some years ago. As of then it was my comfort zone but it was an uncomfortable comfort zone if I may use those words. Well, I was only a young girl that was in love and only wanted to be loved in return. I don’t know if you know the pains of being in love with someone to the extent that you can do anything for them only to be treated in the opposite way.

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Here I was in this abusive relationship and was waiting for when this young man was going to change and begin to appreciate and love me like I do love him but it seemed I was going to wait forever. I guess I was even willing to wait for ever. Such a pathetic state.

Abusive relationships not that he beats me but the kinds of words he tells me and the attitudes maybe would have been better if I was beaten not that any of that is good. I knew I was supposed to leave that relationship but where do I start from? Where do I go to? I was living in his house.

I had my own house but I never stayed there most times. My world was built around him and it felt like I couldn’t live on my own but how long would I continue to live as a shadow of myself?

It was so bad I was having suicidal flashes. I loved in depression and gloominess. I was a shadow of myself. No one knew what I have been going through. I had it up to my neck. I wanted to go but I had no money, no food, I would be going back to an empty house of mine but one day I decided to take that bold step.

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He traveled out of town to another state and I packed all my stuffs and left his house. It was a journey to the unknown having nothing but faith but I pulled through. I do r even know how I survived those periods. Some of my friends helped with some money to sustain for a while.

It was a turning point in my life. Those periods weren’t easy but I had to take time to heal, take time to love myself again and do something beautiful for myself. That was when I met steemit. I immersed myself into steemit and ThankGod for today.

I was glad I walked out of that relationship. I would have been lost forever but deciding to leave that comfort zone where I had food to eat and some money probably to take the journey of self discovery was worth it all.

Am glad I did. It was indeed a turning point and now I’ve come to know that am a beautiful woman and deserves the best kind of love and treatment which starts with me treating myself well first and loving myself.

Everyone deserves to love and be loved and should not be treated below what their maker planned for them. Leave that comfort zone, take that step today and it would be your own turning point.

Thanks for reading through. I ask @pandoradary, @ngoozi996, @jovitaa30 to join the contest.