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How a Bird Changed Samantha’s Life
Helping her to break out of her zone
Walking down the dirt path, Samantha thought about her life. She was content but not happy. Sad but not depressed. She lived in a comfort zone but she was not in a creative zone. While there was plenty of activity in her life there was little excitement or adventure. She felt trapped.
In her mind Samantha had been contemplating escapes from her current life situation but nothing she could come up with seemed practical or doable. And she did not have enough money saved yet to be able to implement a plan. Her job, which she loathed, did not pay well but did manage to maintain a level of comfort and security. For almost six years she had wanted to quit that job but could not bring herself to do it. So she continued walking through her daily life in a quasi somnambulist state.
The dirt path she was walking on was a short cut she took each day between her job and her home. It was a short stretch of nature hidden within the city. The first time she ever took that path she was quite fearful that some crazy person might pop out from behind a bush or a tree and attack her. She was not out in the open on this path as on a city street where people could see her being attacked and could come to her rescue. After taking the path for almost six years now without incident it no longer…
