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.