I'd read this book, first time maybe fifteen years back, and I now realize that back then I'd so totally missed the basic message in the book....guess direct evidence that what you will absorb is only what you are ready for :)
It's a small book of simple parables about 'change'.....in essence to move out of your comfort zone... move beyond your fears.... towards achieving what truly fulfills you.
The story is told through four characters who live in a maze and who are looking for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Cheese here is the metaphor for what makes you happy, and the maze is life, where you look for what you want. There are four imaginary characters, two simple minded ones called Sniff and Scurry and two more complex ones called Hem and Haw, each to represent different facets of ourselves. Sniff, who sniffs out change early... Scurry, who just scurries into action... Hem, who denies and resists change as he fears it will lead to something worse.... and Haw, who learns to adapt in time when he sees change can lead to something better.
You pretty much journey through the maze with Haw, experiencing his difficulties in moving out of the comfort zone, how he overcomes them, and what he learns in the process.
Lessons like how when you take that leap of faith out of your comfort zone, even when you do get discouraged, you remind yourself that, as uncomfortable as some moments of risk might be, it was in reality better than staying in a cheeseless situation. And how present situations can get moldy like cheese but its so gradual that you don't notice it happen.
And the basic realization that what stops you is your own fear... You change what you believe, and you change what you do. And how through the process you even find a better part of yourself, one that recognizes that it was safer to be aware of ones real choices, than to isolate oneself in ones comfort zone.
Life is to be lived, so be ready to change quickly and enjoy it....again...and again....
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