“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
It’s true. We humans are funny creatures.
Every ending is also a beginning. And yet…
Sometimes it’s hard to move forward. Of course, sometimes it helps to realize that by refusing to move forward we are choosing to be dragged kicking and screaming.
Change is inevitable. But how much we suffer the changes of life has to do with the degree to which we hold on, to which we try to avoid and deny the inevitable.
That people we love will grow old, and die. That we ourselves will.
That everything is precious.
And sometimes we don’t have as much time as we’d like to think we have, to do the things we want to do.
And I suppose we could let the fear of death, and the gravity of the whole situation immobilize us.
And that itself is a choice.
But if we can use it, if we can embrace the gravity and the fear in a transformational sense, if it can become a catalyst for making the most of the time that we have, then….well, then we might create something really beautiful.