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Who Moved My Cheese?

Coping with change. That's something I definitely want to and will do.

I just finished reading a book on a story involving two mice, and two little people, in one maze where they sought cheese. It seems like a bed time story at first, but it's a story filled with little pointers and reminders for the readers to take with them as they journey through the maze that is their life. I should get a copy of that book, and have my family and friends read through the very nice pages containing this quite simplistic yet though and insight filled story about two mice and two little men, cheese and a maze.

Seeing myself, I feel like the mouse that found out that cheese has run out at cheese station C, and it's time to move on to another cheese station, or set out finding New Cheese. I definitely felt the fears of changing myself and my outlook about things, but now I should know better and move on. Move with the Cheese and Enjoy it! That's something definitely I will be doing for this time in my life. Now I really feel that there might be things out there for me, and all I need to do is go out through the maze and find these things for me. I know what I want, and I want to get these things that I want. As how the book put it, cheese is something that makes me happy, and the maze is the place where I spend most of my time in search of cheese.

Now I know that life should be treated as a maze and that I should keep moving through the maze in search of that which I think will make me happy -- and when I find it, prepare to move through the maze again, just so that when the Cheese moves, I'd be prepared to look for New Cheese. It definitely makes sense.

Chill.

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