Two weeks ago, I turned 26, a pretty unexciting age to turn, but since then life has been crazy. For the first time in a long time, I feel like I have metaphorical doors in front of me, all waiting eagerly for me to open them. I can't of course, open all of them, such is the trouble with metaphorical doors, you have to choose the ones to open and go through. Some of the choices are obvious, others not so much, but regardless, once you choose and step through you can't go back, you have to keep going until more doors come.
When you finally do settle upon a door, open it and walk through it, the world doesn't change, you aren't magically transported to a new place or world. The passage through the door generally offers subtle changes to your life and environment, but whether they are for better or worse is usually not made immediately apparent. Such is the risk in choosing to pass through metaphorical doors. It is a risk we all take however and will take pretty much our entire lives.
I often find myself wishing these doors did actually lead to some far off places, it'd be such an adventure. Taking the people in your life with you through these crazy worlds and lands behind the doors. Even accompanying others on their journeys through the doors would be incredibly amazing. It'd be like an interactive real life choose your adventure story. You might argue that life is an interactive choose your own adventure story, but then you'd be missing the point of what I am trying to say.
I guess in a way, I have always been afraid of opening new doors, partly because they don't lead to new worlds of grand adventure, they lead to more doors, more decisions. Nothing unusual, nothing strange, just more of the same, except with an altered cast or slightly different scenery. I think though I might also be scared because what if the door I choose does lead to a grand adventure? Am I ready for that? Will I go alone or do I get to bring others with me? I don't have the answers, I guess I just have to start opening doors.
"I can see the light all around your silhouette, leave an open door behind you."
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