022. Who Moved My Cheese

Last weekend, I borrowed a book entitled Who Move My Cheese from a colleague. I guess many of us already it. I always have the intention to buy it every time I go to a bookstore. I was looking forward to read it during a plane trip to Gen San or in Davao during the busy season. Unfortunately, I was running out of cash or in a tight budget when I dropped by the bookstore.

That’s why I am lucky I borrowed a copy of it during the weekend.

The book is not tedious to read. Actually, I finished reading the book within an hour, right before the UFC 100 started last Sunday. The story about the Cheese is very shallow if you will analyze it. The lesson it partakes are already obvious. We are just either too ignorant or too dumb to ignore it.

To those who haven’t read this book, I am very much willing to promote this. You can read this when you are bored in your monotonous life or during your break time from your stressful work. It targets all points of our life- career, business, relationship etc. It gives us a guide just like a map when we go to long travel without no idea where we heading at.

The Cheese is actually a metaphor of the thing which gives the feeling of happiness to our life. There are four characters in the story and I am sure we will relate to them. After reading the story, it is advisable to read the Discussion part of the book. It is still vital to complete the impact of the lesson.

I am glad I read this book. Actually when things suddenly change in their normal course, I fell agitated and sometimes irritated. I am not fan of changes in life. I see myself too stiff and stationery to my comfort zone. After reading this, I analyzed changes that happened in my life.
During my final year in college, I had a wonderful life. I can’t ask for more. I felt blessed and lucky at some point. I had a loving and supportive family, whom my number one fans. I was so happy with my relationship with my girlfriend back then (Aaawness!); and I was also active in an organization in our dormitory and college. It seems I am a well-rounded person the way as I look at my life then. Academic-wise, I was assured of graduating on time except for one Accounting subject which I ended up passing. I couldn’t ask for more. I felt I am ready for my next battle to pass the CPA Board Exam!

Then my Cheeses were moved.

After graduating, my dream of smooth journey to pass the CPA Board Exam and to land a descent job was shattered when I flunk my initial try taking the exam. I delayed my second shot in the exam due to financial reasons which lead me to work as a bank teller far from my dream of working in the corporate world.

I was not comfortable with my situation being a teller. Though I believe I already security in terms of having a permanent job, I knew I still lack something. I lack one of my Cheese which is to have my license. So I decided to leave my work as an underpaid but overworked teller.

I enrolled again for another season of review class. Things are all well but I guess it was not yet my time to pass the exam- again. I failed again on my second try.

As I continue my quest to find my first Cheese, another Cheese of my life was moved. My relationship with my girlfriend was jeopardized. We ended up moving apart. It is a bitter pill I needed to swallow.

I went back home to secure my only Cheese left, my family.

Living for five months with my family gave me a sign of life. I began to see the Green Light of my quest to pass the exam.

Luckily, after all the sorrow and desperation, I passed the exam and became a CPA on May, 2007.

Two years have passed and I am here writing this one up.

I finally found my Cheese, and it teaches me something… to accept changes and go with the flow of the sudden changes in life.

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