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Make things better by making better things.
Waking up to go to a job you don't like is comfortable. Scrolling is a comfortable way to pass the time. Staying in a relationship long past its expiration date is, well, comfortable.
But not because these things are actually comfortable. No. It's the known path that provides the comfort. Predictability. Reliability. Knowing exactly how tomorrow will feel.
"Comfortable" isn't actually comfortable. It's familiar. We call it comfort because we don't have a word for the kind of hurt we've memorized by heart.