The Cursed Shape-shifters

I was envying a peer of mine recently. She is a do-er. She manages to fit travel, fluency in multiple languages, event-organizing, parties, work, dancing, and the ability to look stylish into her one, single life. In comparison to her, I have the same mph as a tortoise. I do everything one at a time... while she does everything at one time. I'm guessing my reflectiveness has something to do with it...because I tend to sit and think about things. And then I think about how I do that. And then I wonder why I think so much and plan ways to get out of my forever-thinking cycle. 

As I contemplated our differences on a walk one evening, I ended up organizing people into three categories: the diggers, the doers, and the shape-shifters. To best explain these concepts, I will compare them to squirrels. First, we have the diggers. These people find their single holes (read: niches) and are perfectly happy to stay in the same place for the rest of their lives. They dig further and further into their burrow and stockpile resources (money, knowledge, skills). Then we have the doers. These people have several holes. They spend their lives running around between all of them, collecting resources in several locations and having a blast doing it. They are usually at the front of every scene, making like a beam and displaying all their talents in everything they do. People go, "Wow! I want THAT extroverted, talented leader on MY team." Which is super for them. Really, way to go. 

But in the middle of this spectrum, we have the shape-shifters, one of which I consider myself. These souls find a spectacular O-shaped hole and build their pile of resources like the other squirrels. After a little while, though, they discover they no longer fit the O-shape and need an L-shape instead...so they go find or build a new hole. This takes time and resources. The not-so-great thing is that most of their resources are stuck inside the O-shaped hole. Consequently, they take what they can from it and begin the burrowing process again - squirrels very well can't live without a hole! After a short while, however, they cannot fit the L-shape anymore, and need a hole with a new shape. The poor squirrels end up continuously moving from hole to hole as they try to find a place where they can stay. They hope they can find fulfillment in SOME shape - ANY shape - so they can quit stopping and re-starting their lives and live in a nice comfortable hole. In the meantime, they usually have very few acorns stashed while the diggers and doers continue to build their nutty wealth. It's frustrating to be a shape-shifter, I tell you. Just. so. frustrating.