Always

There's nothing like finding yourself faced by an obstacle. Obstacles are generally designed to block your path, keep you from pushing forward. But sometimes obstacles are only obstacles because you make them that way. Take doors for example. At some point someone has the decision to make that door an obstacle or not. Sometimes they're open. Sometimes they're closed. Sometimes they're locked. And sometimes they're unlocked and you just have a really hard time figuring out how to open it, when all it takes is a little bit of understanding. Times like these don't come with instruction manuals, it's common knowledge right? Maybe, but maybe not. Either way all it takes is a little try. Unfortunately that try doesn't always yield the results you want. So you try again. And again. You keep trying until something works, or you finally understand. Maybe you tried to unscrew the door by it's hinges, but instead it fell on top of you. This will hurt you, but eventually you'll wiggle your way out from underneath and make it through the opening you worked so hard to get. That you endured that pain to get. But is that pain worth the trouble of getting that door open? I suppose that's something you have to figure out for yourself.



You won't always know what's on the other side. Maybe you'll finally get that door open only to see another door immediately on the other side. Except this door can't be opened by any clever moves or any secret techniques. This door has a timer, and all you have to do is wait.Wait for a door to open without any idea what could be waiting on the other side. It could open to a room filled to the brim with nothing, or maybe a room void of any empty space, cluttered with everything you could have ever wanted. Maybe you don't even want to know what's on the other side of the door, and it would be so much easier to just move on to the next unlocked door. But that door with the timer will always be set in the back your mind. You'll always wonder what was waiting on the other side. You might go so far from that door that it's too late and too far to go back. But you'll know that the timer eventually ceased, and someone could have come along and opened it for themselves, even after you worked so hard to get that first door open.



Our lives are full of doors. Doors aren't made to withstand large amounts of abuse, they aren't going to always be there waiting to be opened. But that doesn't mean you can't reinforce the doors. Add the nails, add the planks, add the steel. Take the time to make the door strong and unbreakable. Do this and the door can never fall. The door will be there through the storms and the waves. The door will be there forever and always.