Are you a mouse or a man?

On the recommendation of a friend I’ve been reading Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson. The story is essentially a little parable about how to deal with change in work and in life It involves two mice—Sniff and Scurry—and two mice sized but otherwise human creatures known as Hem and Haw and their relation to cheese. At the start of the saga, all the mice and the mice-sized people have access to cheese, and as a result are quite content. One day, however, the cheese is no longer there, although there are some questions weather in fact the cheese has in fact been decreasing over time or the drop off was sudden. In either case, the mice immediately head off in search of new cheese. But the two human like creatures are quite baffled by the whole situation, and first sit around and complain, and then analyze, and ultimately engage in some rather futile activity to bring the cheese back. Finally one of the people like creatures—Haw—decides to leave behind their previous location and, despite being afraid, goes out into the maze in search of new cheese—a task which after some effort he ultimately successfully completes. Along the way he leaves “handwriting on the wall” of the maze in the hopes his old friend Hem might read it and be encouraged,

These nuggets of wisdom are summarized at the end:
1. Change happens (they keep moving the cheese)
2. Anticipate change: Get ready for the cheese to move
3. Monitor change: Smell the old cheese so you know when it is getting old
4. Adopt to change quickly: the quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you can enjoy new cheese
5. Change: Move with the cheese
6. Enjoy change: savor the adventure and enjoy the new cheese
7. Be ready to change quickly (they keep moving the cheese)

This is only a sketch and an inadequate one at that of a short work I highly recommend. All I can say is this little tale went a long way towards delineating my situation, although if I were to describe myself it would be as another character “Huh?” , who has left the place where there no longer is any cheese and now wonders why he isn’t getting any cheese. Shouldn’t the fact that he moved out of the cheeseless situation be enough? Huh? asks himself. But the thing is, of course, you don’t get any cheese just by leaving the place where there was no cheese before. You have to act, and that is what I have failed to do up to this point. I am neither in the old place looking for old cheese like Hem but neither am I out exploring the maze like Haw.