Resistance

 A main reason that we don't become our better or best self is that we settle for routines, the familiar, rather than something new, or "the unknown."  NEW and FEAR too often go together.  We remain like children who resist the parent's entreaty to try something new.  We hold onto stuffed bears and dolls way past their prime.  Comfort is the cure for fear.  But comfort is so often a short term solution.  A drunk walks into a room filled with strangers, and seeks comfort in drink.  They get comfortable.  And then oblivion.  Recovery is change.  So is conversion.  So few pursue either.