#28: How often do you step outside your comfort zone?

And how important this is for our development

Hey friends,

For the first time this year, I felt like autumn was here.

Being on vacation, running the race, and just staying in hot weather didn’t make me feel like the summer was over.

But I felt it this week. We had some cold days, and there was that smell of burning leaves in the air that took me back to my childhood.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

―Vladimir Nabokov

There is a science behind this; it seems that smell is the sense that can bring the most vivid memories and can induce a feeling of nostalgia.

And that’s what happens to me, usually in the autumn or winter.

That’s why these days I was filled with so many memories from the days I would wake up early and my mom would take me to school. It was full of fallen leaves everywhere, and I would stop to pick up chestnuts while my mom was hurrying me up so I could get to school on time and she could be at work on time.

How time passes. And how peacefully I remember those days!

Anywa…