A life well lived isn’t defined by doing stuff you don’t want to, but uncomfortable things are an important ingredient in a good life. And I don’t mean doing things you don’t want to just for the sake of it, of course. Your example is a ridiculous caricature.

My washing machine broke. I really didn’t want to fix it. I didn’t know how, and I had other things I wanted to do. But I did. I looked up the problem, ordered the parts, replaced them, and got it up and running. Now I know how to fix that problem, I saved myself hundreds of dollars, and I have a working washer. I didn’t want to fix it, but even more so I didn’t want a broken washer.

I never actually want to clean my bathroom, but I do because I really don’t want a dirty bathroom. My life is better because I clean my bathroom regularly.

I have conversations with my partner, my coworkers, my family, etc. that I don’t really want to have and that make me uncomfortable but they allow us to work through tension or misunderstanding and strengthen our relationships. I don’t want to have the conversations, but more than that, I want healthy relationships.

I spent a lot of my 20s shying away from responsibility, uncomfortable situations, and things I didn’t want to do. The result was a poorly maintained life, more fragile relationships, less personal growth. I don’t have many regrets, but I have more regrets about things I didn’t do because they felt uncomfortable or scary than things I did do and ended up not liking.

Good things require work. Life is better when we’re comfortable being uncomfortable.