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Who Moved My Parade!

I was recently cleaning my home office and ran across one of my favorite books, “Who Moved My Cheese?” The book is about two mice and two little beings who are as small as mice but look like humans. The main characters in the book are Sniff and Scurry (mice), and Hem and Haw (little humans). Every morning the characters in the story went through the same routine and went to the same place to find their same cheese. They all knew exactly where the cheese was and assumed it would always be there. However, one day there was no cheese and Hem and Haw panicked. All Hem and Haw could do was hope somehow the cheese would reappear in the same old location, but it never did! While Hem and Haw focused on what went wrong and kept casting blame, Sniff and Scurry were on the move and found a whole new cheese station with unlimited cheese. In the meantime, Hem kept asking, “Who moved my cheese? I like things the way they are!” Haw told Hem he knew he was comfortable, but he also realized if they kept doing the same things over and over nothing would get better. After a period of time, Haw decided they should start to look for a new cheese location. While hunting for a new pile of cheese, Haw realized that the quicker he let go of where the old cheese was, the sooner he would find the new cheese. Hem was so set in his ways that it took him a long time before he started looking for new cheese. Eventually, they found the biggest, chunkiest pile of cheese they had ever seen. They came to the realization that there is always more cheese, and the biggest inhibitor to finding it was the fear that lay within them. In this story, the cheese could be a metaphor for what we want to have in life, and the moving of the cheese represents change. There are a few lessons we may learn from this simple story:

• Burying our heads in the sand and focusing on the way things have always been done is not necessarily a recipe for success.

• Things are changing and it won't always be in an incremental way.

• We can be like Hem and be fearful of change, or we can be like Haw and learn to adapt.

• Better yet, we can be like Sniff and Scurry and seek out change and scurry into action.

• An unwillingness to take risks and move with the times can result in the loss of one’s cheese.

It’s no secret that the cheese was moved this year in our Cherry Days Celebration. Some may even say, “Who moved my parade?” I want to express my deepest appreciation for the volunteers who had the courage to try something new and were Sniffs and Scurries. They did a fantastic job! Thanks to those who didn’t Hem and Haw around and joined in the festivities.

Mayor Neal Berube

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