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Doors of the New Year

Sunday, January 01, 2006

When a door closes in your life, another will be opened to you.

This is true of the New Year, where new doors of opportunities await the one who seeks them. In Japanese, we say 開けましておめでとう　(akemashite omedetoo), which literally means: congratulations on the opening of a New Year. The word for "opening" is the same as that used for opening doors. With every New Year comes the hope of making it big, striking it rich, better grades, improved relationships - basically for all kinds of opportunities that would seemingly better ourselves. Perhaps in all this materialism, what we've neglected to consider so far is the condition of our soul. When the New Year arrives, we do not hope for a better heart, one that will be kind to others. We do not think of restraining ourselves from committing the sins of the past year, neither do we put in effort in becoming a better person. Maybe we do think about all these things, but as easily as they come out from our mouths, they are forgotten in the same way within a few weeks.

I used to think that when a door closes in your life, that's the end of that passage way, where each door has a passage way which length depends on the effort and time you put into it, and there are many many doors in a person's life, some of which interweave with one another. On hindsight, however, a door may become closed but that is not all it has to it because of the promise of a new one opening. Moreover, even when a door has been closed, it does not mean that its passage way cannot be accessed forever. When another passage way crosses its path, the memories are thus renewed. Therefore, does this defeat the purpose of closing the door in the first place? Yes and no. Yes, because when things are closed, they are not meant to have any light, even a tiny single strand of it, entering, yet there is the possibility of letting light in at various points in the passageway through interconnectivity. No, because even when a door is closed, the closed door and its passage way still remains in one's life, perhaps just as a memory or as a part of someone's past. Thus, we are not likely to avoid a closed door precisely because it has been part of us before and perhaps more significantly because the door is closed - only when we realise that we can't do anything in a closed-door situation do we delve more frequently into nostalgia or reminisce more often about the past or regret that our past actions have resulted in this.

Like an old person, I tend to track back into the past and relive in its memories. However, while most people would go back to the good old days, for some reason or other, I can remember the bad times more vividly than the good ones. And though I have been immersed since childhood in the scriptures: Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door shall be opened unto you, I have often dismissed this as a mere pep talk or plain optimism. But as a I reflect upon it on the first day of the New Year, I realised that what the Holy book has been saying all along is not fiction or parable. It is real, as real as my life has been and God's unconditional love for me.

As I embark on yet another new journey towards Him and love, I shall do well to bear in mind His words - that the door shall always been opened for me, even though I was the one who closed it in the first place.

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