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

Literature and Life in Of Human Bondage     In the novel Of Human Bondage, the reader comes across a actually magnificent quote 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 reigning quote.  However, it can be given even more power and significance if a person can relate this quote to their own life and experiences.  I myself, after reading this quote, was instantly able to identify with it.             This quote describes the middle school years and my early high school years almost perfectly.  numerous nights I would find myself staying in, watching TV, doing one thing or another around my house.  I would almost never leave the house and I had vigor 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 abou t my future and wishing 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 jump 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 anomalous living.  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 pretermit present.  I would have 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 postal code I could do to remedy this situation and was at a total loss for solutions.  Soon enough, though, I concluded that there w as no alternative to catchy 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 therefrom far.  This being 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 add up of years.