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

Literature and animation in Of Human Bondage     In the novel Of Human Bondage, the lector comes across a truly magnificent quote on rogue 627.  This quote is He had lived always in the future, and the present always, always had slipped finished his fingers.  In and of itself, this is a very powerful quote.  However, it potbelly be presumptuousness even more power and significance if a person can relate this quote to their own biography and experiences.  I myself, after tuition this quote, was instantly able to identify with it.             This quote describes the middle school age and my early high school years almost perfectly.  Many nights I would find myself staying in, watching TV, doing one thing or another virtually my house.  I would almost never leave the house and I had nought that could even remotely be called a social life.  My reason for doing this to myself was that I spent most of my time thinking about my future and need for it to come.  I had almost 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 around other people (I still am, admittedly) and I had very few friends.             It was not too long before I discovered the faults in my erroneous dungeon.  I finally realized, and truly not a moment too soon, that if I did not start living for the present, my future would soon become my neglected present.  I would have soft-witted my life doing meaningless things and  I would have no experience to character with anyone who may be interested in the uneventful life I had led.  After I came to this startling revelation, I grew even more inert in my depression.  I truly felt that there was nothing I could do to remedy this situation and was at a total mischief for solutions.  Soon enoug h, though, I concluded that there was no alternative to unvoiced work to change 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 being the journey of self-alteration and successfully changing my own behavioural patterns.             My changes that Ive done to myself have been quite noticeable to those people whove known me for a great number of years.