Cre­ative peo­ple are re­act­ing to con­ta­gion-drive lives in unique ways. Young artist Gurleen Kaur pur­sues her pas­sion for paint­ing -from the can­vas to the walls of her vil­lage house and spend­ing qual­ity time talk­ing to her par­ents and sib­lings. In this open­ing of the heart, she metaphor­i­cally dis­cusses the clos­ing of doors based on her paint­ing. Rel­ish and en­joy!

YOU CLOSE DOORS WHEN GO­ING OUT; when you go for work, for study, for sports and more. Each step out is em­bark­ing on a voy­age -step­ping out from the cosy com­fort of your home to some­thing new and dif­fer­ent.

To the young and old, am­bi­tious and not so am­bi­tious, life pre­sents twists and turns, ups and downs. Open doors and closed doors. Op­por­tu­ni­ties and missed op­por­tu­ni­ties. When one door closes in one’s life, don’t lose heart, an­other has opened some­where. It is not the end, but a new start, a new be­gin­ning you are yet to dis­cover and en­joy!

Out to dis­cover the world on a ship, Christo­pher Colum­bus mov­ing from one part of the world to an­other left us with the les­son, “You can never cross the ocean un­til you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

Look for keys to new doors. Make new keys; do not wait. Don’t hold back to the one which has al­ready closed, it must have got rusted. Move on. Life is too pre­cious to be cry­ing over rust.

Em­bark­ing on a new jour­ney is a suc­cess which needs to be cel­e­brated by your heart. It ul­ti­mately gives birth to think what takes you to the height which you were never able to see as you were busy hold­ing the door from clos­ing.

See an ath­lete’s sprint of a few sec­onds be­fore the fin­ish­ing line and you say “Oh! She is in the air,” but we don’t see how many years, days and hours have placed her in the air! The sweat, the train­ing, the de­ter­mi­na­tion, the grit to get up when low, so much ef­fort to un­dergo. Yet we see only the glo­ri­ous mo­ment.

While read­ing this Open Door Closed Door metaphoric piece, do not miss to ap­pre­ci­ate the au­thor’s paint­ing in the ti­tle im­age.

The doc­tors -our he­roes of to­day -the pre­sent-day med­ical war­riors -when we hear of the mir­a­cles that they are cre­at­ing in op­er­a­tion the­atres, work­ing with min­i­mal gear and high risk, we sweetly and pro­fusely say, “Un­be­liev­able surgery! Re­mark­able dili­gence! Oh, God! He is God.”

She or he is blessed, no doubt. Yet, think of the count­less nights, the rigours of train­ing, the con­fi­dence and courage to put some­one on the ven­ti­la­tor and carry out in­ci­sive surg­eries! In­cred­i­ble, but it did not hap­pen overnight! Each one of them through learn­ing and train­ing went through many open and closed doors.

“You can never cross the ocean un­til you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

Christo­pher Colum­bus

Many doors closed for peo­ple who ex­cel in life be­cause they saw that when one closes, some other opens. It is easy to say that they are for­tu­nate to be born like that. They are the same as you and me. The only dif­fer­ence is; they stayed away from closed doors, kept mov­ing and opened new ones.

Look for keys to new doors. Make new keys; do not wait. Don’t hold back to the one which has al­ready closed, it must have got rusted. Move on. Life is too pre­cious to be cry­ing over rust.

An open door is beck­on­ing you. Come on in!

Gurleen Kaur is a Pun­jab-based bud­ding artist and writer, with a taste for God­li­ness, pos­i­tiv­ity and good­ness of the hu­man race. She spends qual­ity time with her par­ents and sib­lings en­joy­ing the re­al­i­ties of life as they un­fold.