Window of opportunity
Greetings!
It is said that when life closes a door, it opens a thousand doors for you.
I suppose it is meant to be said to those who feel down due to a lost opportunity. It is a good way to console the sad, to uplift the lowered spirit. But I think the more accurate analogy is - When life closes a door, we should first look at the window of opportunity!
The door is the path trodden by others, which we too are following. If it was an uncharted path, then there wouldn't have been a door there in first place. The openings and clearing in the jungle of life, are made by those, who ventured through them for the first time. We merely follow these footsteps, when we too venture through the same.
I think when a door is closed, it is the God's way of alerting us about the path that it would have led us to. So even if we do find another door (or nine hundred and ninety nine more doors, for proverb's sake), it may be leading us to the same place. If our shepherd doesn't wish us to be in that place, then the closing of the door proves to be a wasted act because we merely get busy finding thousand open doors...
I have come to believe that when a door is closed for us - the first thing to do is to find a window and look out.
Look out for pitfalls, slippery slopes, poisonous thorns and other assorted dangers that might by lurking beyond the wall. Decide whether it still makes sense to go out this way. Decide whether it still makes sense to cross this boundary through the wall. Most walls are created for protection, is this one of them? Is the door meant for people to get in to safety and not get out to the dangers? If no danger awaits us outside, still a glance at the landscape will help us decide whether we really wish to be there or some place else?
If we don't look out of it then what has the window been created for?
Some times I think the proverbial "window of opportunity" is this... The opportunity to peep out of the window and decide on the right path at right time!
Sincerely Mine!
Anand Kulkarni
It is said that when life closes a door, it opens a thousand doors for you.
I suppose it is meant to be said to those who feel down due to a lost opportunity. It is a good way to console the sad, to uplift the lowered spirit. But I think the more accurate analogy is - When life closes a door, we should first look at the window of opportunity!
The door is the path trodden by others, which we too are following. If it was an uncharted path, then there wouldn't have been a door there in first place. The openings and clearing in the jungle of life, are made by those, who ventured through them for the first time. We merely follow these footsteps, when we too venture through the same.
I think when a door is closed, it is the God's way of alerting us about the path that it would have led us to. So even if we do find another door (or nine hundred and ninety nine more doors, for proverb's sake), it may be leading us to the same place. If our shepherd doesn't wish us to be in that place, then the closing of the door proves to be a wasted act because we merely get busy finding thousand open doors...
I have come to believe that when a door is closed for us - the first thing to do is to find a window and look out.
Look out for pitfalls, slippery slopes, poisonous thorns and other assorted dangers that might by lurking beyond the wall. Decide whether it still makes sense to go out this way. Decide whether it still makes sense to cross this boundary through the wall. Most walls are created for protection, is this one of them? Is the door meant for people to get in to safety and not get out to the dangers? If no danger awaits us outside, still a glance at the landscape will help us decide whether we really wish to be there or some place else?
If we don't look out of it then what has the window been created for?
Some times I think the proverbial "window of opportunity" is this... The opportunity to peep out of the window and decide on the right path at right time!
Sincerely Mine!
Anand Kulkarni
Comments
You really gave 3D perspective to the age/old proverb.
You added possibilities on both sides and great insight about the windows of opportunity 👍💯