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Opening Doors

This entry was posted on January 20, 2009 2:29 AM and is filed under uncategorized.

Well I finally got home after an enjoyable three day stint on the road, and I came to realize that I hadn't posted an entry to the blog in well over a week. No idea where all that time went, but I did make a promise to myself that this year I would be a bit more cognizant as to how frequently I posted my updates. Ideally I would love to update my blog every day (as most other bloggers do), but that doesn't seem to always go as planned, leastwise not in my life.

When I sat down and thought about what I wanted to write tonight, nothing readily came to mind, that is until I started staring at all the open doorways in my house and it made me realize just how many doorways I had yet to open in my life, and fortunately for me, how few permanently closed ones there were. This led me to the thought that I have placed in the image above.

So often we are so concerned about the unknown that we fore go opportunities because of this fear. In short we leave doors closed that would serve us better if they were opened. Whether it is due to negative past experience, or simply fear of the devil we don't know, we end up staying contently where we are, and are not always the better for it.

This is a brand new year, albeit 20 days into it, and so much is changing all around us even as we speak. These changes will no doubt cause trepidation for some, and reason to hope for others. As for me, I prefer to look at the coming year as a year of doors yet to be opened, so perhaps we would do well to change with it and open new doors rather than sit securely behind our unopened doors wondering if these changes will bring us joy or sorrow. With this in mind, as I trek through the hallway of the months ahead I will endeavor to open new doors while doing something I have never done in the past, which simply stated is to not feel so compelled to close other doors behind me. It will be a somewhat scary thing for me, but I know that what I find on the other side of a closed door is only that which I bring with me through it.

It is said that people come and go in our life for a reason, and that we travel the path we are on for a specific reason as well. While I don't know if this is indeed true or not, it makes some modicum of sense to me, and as such I firmly believe that in order to continue on down this path, one must indeed open new doors and see where they lead us and to whom they lead us to. While some may consider this akin to Stockton's famous short story of the "Lady or the Tiger", I prefer to believe that there is a better than 50/50 chance that what I will find behind a closed door will be desirable rather than detrimental, presuming of course that I open said door with an open mind. What's your take?

Have fun ;)!