Life 101

When things go wrong and I seem to be at a lost, sometimes I whine and think that life would be so much better if someone would just tell us what to do and in general, how to live and how to be wise – how to make good decisions, how to pray, how to control your emotions, how to deal with misery, how to forgive others, how to pursue your dreams, how to accept criticisms, how to be a good friend, how to trust, how to bring up a child, how to be a good spouse, how to love unselfishly, and so on.

Unfortunately, these are not taught in the classroom and there’s no way one could get a certificate for being “the best mom” or “the wisest man on earth”.

The most important lessons in life are the ones that we learn first hand as we go through the road we chose to take. I imagine it as a very long, tricky labyrinth where you try all possible ways to get to your destination.

Open door or closed window?

 

Did the closed window catch your attention before you even noticed the open door?

I can’t remember how many times in my life I have focused on closed windows and refused to find the open door, at least for some time, before finally walking through it. It happens all the time and to many of us, I think.

This is probably the reason the cliche “when God closes a door, He opens a window” had become so.  For the moment, I don’t mind writing about this cliche, no matter how commonplace it sounds to you and me.  It’s a fact of life, anyway. Don’t you think so?