When Lynn and I were on a trip through Europe long ago we became fascinated by doors. We took photo after photo of all the different shapes and colors that appeared, even on a common street.
Jhumpa Lahiri is a lovely writer and in her book Translating Myself and Others, she makes this observation about the reality and metaphor of what a door represents: “Each door has a dual nature, a contradictory role. It functions as a barrier on the one hand; as a point of entry on the other.”
In her forties Lahiri decided to move to Italy and to write in Italian rather than English, and in that decision she noted how her perception of doors changed. She writes this, “Doors keep urging me forward. Each leads me to a new discovery, a new challenge, a new possibility.”
Which made me realize where opportunity waits is always on the other side of a door we need to choose to open.
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