Myth of Comfort

         "The human soul thrives on a challenge or a problem and, once it is stretched by struggling with any sort of adversity, it can never stretch back to its original dimensions. And so it grown bigger." Eliminate the adversity, eliminate the risk, and while in the name of comfort, you may save the body, you will lose the soul.  -The Wilderness Within by Daniel L. Dustin

Author speaks on bad airline food, “It gave me the feeling that I had bitten into the modern world and discovered what it is really made of… everything slick, and streamlined, everything made out of something else.”

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