Literature and Life in Of Human Bondage :: Of Human Bondage

Literature and Life in Of piece Bondage     In the novel Of Human Bondage, the reader comes across a truly magnificent reference on page 627.  This quote is He had lived always in the future, and the present always, always had slipped through his fingers.  In and of itself, this is a very powerful quote.  However, it can be given even more(prenominal) power and significance if a person can relate this quote to their own life and experiences.  I myself, after reading this quote, was instantly fitting to identify with it.             This quote describes the middle school years and my early senior high school school years about perfectly.  Many nights I would find myself staying in, reflexion TV, doing one thing or another around my house.  I would al nearly never leave the house and I had nothing that could even remotely be called a social life.  My reason for doing this to myself was that I s pent most of my time thinking about my future and wishing for it to come.  I had intimately no kind of happiness for where I was or what I was doing in the present.  I cut myself off from the outside world.  I was rather shy(p) around other people (I still am, admittedly) and I had very a couple of(prenominal) friends.             It was not too long before I discovered the faults in my erroneous living.  I finally realized, and truly not a here and now too before long, that if I did not start living for the present, my future would soon become my neglected present.  I would moderate wasted my life doing meaningless things and  I would have no experience to share with anyone who may be interested in the uneventful life I had led.  After I came to this startling revelation, I grew even more apathetic in my depression.  I truly felt that there was nothing I could do to reform this situation and was at a total loss for solutions.  Soon enough, though, I concluded that there was no alternative to hard work to mixed bag the current state of affairs in my life.  It was then that I truly embarked on the most difficult journey of my life thus far.  This existence the journey of self-alteration and successfully changing my own behavioral patterns.             My changes that Ive done to myself have been quite noticeable to those people whove known me for a great enactment of years.