From time to time there are periods in my life where I am just restless... ichneumon flies set into my being...I feel trapped - like a caged animal, desperately wanting to run away.
I have had this feeling so often that I am beginning to get used to it. However, I know better than to settle into a comfort zone - that will not do for me. What brings this on? Why so often? It is, of course because I am the most unreasonable person I know.
To quote on of my favorite quotes from George Bernard Shaw :
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man."
So, I find myself looking back and finding that the times when I feel like running away are the times when I have encountered a situation I wanted to change - completely - and never bothered. I guess the choice is mine at the end of the day. I could either change everything around me - or I could change where I am. In recent years, I have been choosing the later more and more.
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
-- Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893
I wonder what my circumstances will be in the near future?
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