Comfort zone

Seven days are almost complete! 

Today's question is: When was the last time I left my comfort zone?

This one is tricky (my childhood nickname!). I guess the last time I really got out of my comfort zone was on the concert Capitão Fausto (I still have to write about this because this marked a big change in my spirt) gave in Porto two weeks ago. Not really in the concert but after. I really wanted to go to a bar where they were going to do a DJ Set and I thought I was going to go alone. In the end my roommate and two other friends met me there. 

But that was not how I got out of my comfort zone. I went to the bar with some friends from Barcelos that I met only in the concert and has the weather was pretty bad I really thought that my friends (from Porto) were going to cancel and not go. So during the concert I decided that I was going to go even if I had to go alone! I didn't. But I've done things that, to me, were really out of my comfort zone!

I never think of myself as an outgoing person, as someone that easily talks with everyone. I'm very shy and I like to stay on my corner and observe things. This time I lost my shyness and I went to talk to the member of Capitão Fausto. And I have some really nice talks. I know that they are very accessible and easy to talk to, but I normally don't do this kind of things. The last time I did something like this was in Paredes de Coura when I went to talk to one member of Ganso, a band that I love. And even then it was one friend of mine that called for him and said that I wanted to talk to him! This time I was the one that went to them and started talking. And it was so good! I felt so sure of myself! I even danced with one of them! 

I really had a great time and I really think that I would have gone alone if my friends hadn't gone. I stayed alone because they came home earlier than me. And I had a great time even when I was "alone". 

I know that for many people this is not getting out of comfort zone, but for someone that's shy, that never has courage to talk to people that she doesn't know, this is getting out of comfort zone. I think that in the past I wouldn't even thought about going to the "after concert". One thing that happened that night is that I felt safe. When I go out in Porto I never feel safe, I never feel comfortable. I never feel like how I feel when I go out in Barcelos. This time I did. I know that I had some friends from Barcelos there but it's still different. But this is going to be developed in the post about this night!