I wanted to get this down while it was still rather fresh in my mind. So I just finished the book "who Moved My Cheese" by Spencer Johnson, M.D. Since I have a hefty summer reading list and a lot of soul searchin to do, I figure it would be a good idea to write and reflect. I need to figure out which of the 4 characters I feel that I am, and which character I would like to be. Plus, what I do now that associates me with that character and what I would like to become. In a sense, that could be my New Cheese. Then I must figure out what I want my New Cheese to look like overall for my life.
The character that i feel most like is difficult because when i look at the things that have changed like the parentals, school, the ppl around me; I didn't have much to say of offer to any kind of conversation. I was fully capable of formulating some kind of opinion (I'm doing that right now). As for school i saw no reason to change because i figured that perhaps I was already suited for college. As for meeting the change for the people around me, my inability to change left me alone, confuse, distant, upset, and just about every other horrible feeling. I guess in my inactivity I backslid into indescribable actions.
I feel that i could be sniff but with Hem tendencies or behaviors. I seem to be able to 'sniff' out change on the horizon, I sense that things aren't going to be the same. But I choose to stay in my comfort zone of inactivity. This is a rather Evil comfort zone and offers no such comfort to me whatsoever. The fact that I can sense change and really process how my life can be different gives me a real sense of hope right now that I can in fact adapt to change and enven move my own cheese.
I think that that, moving my own Cheese is what i picture most for my life. I desire to be able to work my situation and not have it work me. So now that I have learned that I need to work harder at changing by the time I get further on into my life, when it really matters, when i have a career and I command my own life, I can put myself ahead of the curve that I 'sniff' out, plan for the change and make it bfore it gets to me.
Two quotes that I really like were: IMAGINING MYSELF ENJOYING NEW CHEESE EVEN BEFORE I FIND IT, LEADS ME TO IT
and...WHAT WOULD I DO IF I WEREN'T AFRAID? The first is especially important to me because at the moment I feel that I have nothing to aim for. But I want to try even harder to paint my picture of New Cheese and imagine a day in the life of Ariel Jones.
