Day 123

'One door closes', Pen on Paper

One door closes and another opens is one of those old idioms that people have a habit of uttering whenever a rued opportunity raises its head, however there is a little more to that phrase in a few of its other iterations and variations.

"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". (this variation is attributed to Alexander Graham Bell)

While normally the phrase is uttered as a means to maintain an air of optimism, in it's entirety the phrase has a slightly different meaning. It lends to highlight that in these moments when opportunity slips our grasp we tend to focus on the rued chance more than the new opportunity. The optimism that we so often speak of is seemingly lost on us then as we are to preoccupied with the door that has just been shut in our face. The result being that we tend to let a further opportunity pass us by and as the cyclical nature of the beast maintains once this opportunity is missed then another one is sure to raise its head. Things are then destined to follow this pattern, that is until the optimism that we allude to finally overwhelms and something gives just long enough for us to break the cycle and finally take advantage of a chance to do something different.