Have you ever heard the saying, "When God closes a door, somewhere he opens a window"?
If you haven't, I suggest you rent out 'The Sound Of Music' and watch it (and yes-I am nerdy enough to remember quotes from this movie!).
My point here is that, just like this great movie, there are great opportunities in life.
Many miss out on them because they're so preoccupied with the closed door in front of them that they fail to see the open window beside it.
A friend of mine, for example (who remains anonymous for the sake of privacy...I'm not entirely thoughtless!), recently missed out on something she had spent half her life trying to gain.
It had been her goal for years, ever since I had met her and I was just as confident as she was about the fact she would achieve it.
Unfortunately for her, fate had different plans and bad luck as we know it, chose to strike. She was devestated as you can imagine and there was nothing anyone could do to console her.
Of course we all tried to tell her she was better off without it; that she had plenty of time to figure out her life and things you generally say to cheer someone up but she brushed them all aside feeling, in her current frame of mind, that they were nothing more than empty promises.
And maybe they are, for the pessimists, but I still firmly hold on to the opinion that opportunity can always be found right in front of you.
If you open your eyes and see that window, which stands wide open just for you. The problem is, this window doesn't have a sign to point it out to you or a hand to beckon you with. It stands there, open, waiting for the moment when you will stop looking at the closed door and turn your face its way.
And some people never turn towards it, too caught up in the heartbreak they faced when the door closed in front of their faces- in sight but just out of grasp.
That's one of the hardest places to recover from but, if you find the courage and strength to turn away, to get back up and work twice as hard to reach it, you just might find that a window stands open right in front of your eyes...you just have to look :-)
If you haven't, I suggest you rent out 'The Sound Of Music' and watch it (and yes-I am nerdy enough to remember quotes from this movie!).
My point here is that, just like this great movie, there are great opportunities in life.
Many miss out on them because they're so preoccupied with the closed door in front of them that they fail to see the open window beside it.
A friend of mine, for example (who remains anonymous for the sake of privacy...I'm not entirely thoughtless!), recently missed out on something she had spent half her life trying to gain.
It had been her goal for years, ever since I had met her and I was just as confident as she was about the fact she would achieve it.
Unfortunately for her, fate had different plans and bad luck as we know it, chose to strike. She was devestated as you can imagine and there was nothing anyone could do to console her.
Of course we all tried to tell her she was better off without it; that she had plenty of time to figure out her life and things you generally say to cheer someone up but she brushed them all aside feeling, in her current frame of mind, that they were nothing more than empty promises.
And maybe they are, for the pessimists, but I still firmly hold on to the opinion that opportunity can always be found right in front of you.
If you open your eyes and see that window, which stands wide open just for you. The problem is, this window doesn't have a sign to point it out to you or a hand to beckon you with. It stands there, open, waiting for the moment when you will stop looking at the closed door and turn your face its way.
And some people never turn towards it, too caught up in the heartbreak they faced when the door closed in front of their faces- in sight but just out of grasp.
That's one of the hardest places to recover from but, if you find the courage and strength to turn away, to get back up and work twice as hard to reach it, you just might find that a window stands open right in front of your eyes...you just have to look :-)
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