Review of Who Moved My Cheese?
In the next paragraphs, you’re about to read my book review of Who Moved My Cheese? written by Dr. Stephen Johnson. Yes, a book review! Many excellent reviews have been written about it and many people claimed that their lives were changed after reading Who Moved My Cheese? and so I was intrigued to spend half of my hour and digest what the book has to say.
The author used four imaginary characters, two mice Sniff and Scurry, two little people, Hem and Haw who are all looking for the cheese. Cheese here used as the metaphor of thing or things we want in life, wether they may be job, wealth, health, relationship or anything we truly want and yearn. Each character depicts a significant role that could represent real people and their outlook in life.
The plot is so simple and anyone can relate to what the author is trying to point out. Pretty much like an everyday scenario where we strived for some thing which we believed will make a difference. Most of us, become so comfortable with what we have, our cheese. We get used to the cheese being around. The cheese that keeps our wants and needs reachable, we want to peg our cheese to our comfort zone. Little did we realized, that cheese may spoil, bits by bits as we munched it over and over, it may gone into extinction. The taste may get sour and the owner of the cheese can move it to another place and we will be left with nothing. The question, what are you going to do when your cheese is moved away from you?
In the story, the four characters, after getting into tough search for the cheese in the maze finally settled in the Cheese Station C where a huge supply of cheese is waiting. They’ve been so happy with how the cheese is situated to their comfort and didn’t expect they will come to the chamber the next day only to find it empty. The lesson of the story started when the two mice decided to look for new cheese while the two little people waited until someone will move back their cheese.
The mice portrayed as rodents themselves with less intellectual capacity compared to the two little men, willingly accept the change and started to look where the change is. They tried again to look for new cheese until they finally found it in Station N. Haw who was listening to Hem at first fell into the trap of unwillingness to chase and accept change. Later, Haw realized he has to move and look for the cheese no matter what it takes while Hem reluctantly refuse to the idea of leaving the Station C and still hope that their cheese will be moved back to them. Fear of failure overwhelmed Hem and as much as Haw persuade him to explore the maze with him in search of the new cheese, Haw’s efforts was in vain.
Haw left trails along the maze by writing words of hope on the wall hoping Hem will follow him. By Haw’s effort, he found bits of cheese along the way and that regained back his strength to go on searching for the new cheese until he finally found Sniff and Scurry with their fat bellies around the cheese of all kinds.
What Made Me Read Who Moved My Cheese?
I’ve seen the book Who Moved My Cheese? many times in the shelves of Jareer Bookstore here in Riyadh and been browsing it in their catalog for years already. It has always been featured in their bestseller English books but for no apparent reason, I haven’t made a move to lift the pages to at least read the synopsis. It doesn’t catch my attention. The title doesn’t tickle my reading interest. Maybe because growing up I don’t liked cheese, milk and dairy products and I would like to blame it for my frequent visit to the dentist. Of course, that is a different story. I know somehow, the book is not about cheese but I just don’t get the relation between cheese and life. It just don’t appeal to my senses.
As I was browsing the catalog which I took on our last visit, the first page I got into was the featured English books and again, Who Moved My Cheese? is still on the list. What’s with this book that people are always talking about it? The next thing is, I found my fingers typing into the Safari browser looking for an ebook of Who Moved My Cheese? and a few minutes later I got myself a PDF format of the book.
It’s been ages since the last time I did a book review. The last review I did was for Don’t Be Sad by Aid Al Garni, a very informative book on how to cope with sadness or how to live a happy life citing some authentic hadiths and verses from Qur’an. I’ve been frequenting Jareer Bookstore these past months and hopefully I could go back to reading again amidst my very busy schedule with work and personal life. I have so many books in the queue now and I just don’t know when I’m gonna finish reading them all. I have this strange habit of reading two or more books at the same time which occupy most of my spare time and would resort to more delays. I don’t know if I’m the only one doing this which I hope not.
Lessons to Learn
The lessons in the story are so easy to digest. The story pointed practical views on how we should adapt to change. Some changes will make a huge impact to our customary lives leaving us puzzled. Sometimes even how intellectual we can be and assumed we can remedy things using our whim, we only ends up complicating a supposed to be easy task. If by chance, our cheese is moved from our comfort zone, chase it. There might be unconventional changes while chasing the cheese but it will be worth it once you get hold of the cheese.
It was worth my 30 minutes reading Who Moved My Cheese?. Grab your copy now.
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