I love fresh air. When it’s hot, or cool and no matter what season I deeply enjoy the smell of the fresh outdoors and try to always have some source of it. I feel the same way about the car, although I mostly end up with the AC on since Zach doesn’t like the wind blowing or the sunroof open.

If I open doors and windows around the house I can get a nice breeze going. This doesn’t work well if we are in freezing cold, or humid hot temperatures. But there are a lot of temperatures in between that work. When I do this, I sometimes forget to put something in front of the doors to keep them from slamming, and my zen mind is startled when one shuts loudly, abruptly and fast!

When this happened recently I got to thinking, that it is actually an open window, or door, that pulls the air current and the other door along with it, making it slam shut. If that is the case, then isn’t it true that when one door closes, another has already opened, thus causing it to close in the first place?

I like the idea of this. Sometimes when a proverbial door closes, it can feel like an eternity waiting for the next one to open. But if the above theory holds true, then the waiting shouldn’t be so bad. If a new door opening is the instigator which causes ours to shut (a job opportunity, a relationship, a creative idea) then we need not worry when that other door will open, since it already has.

We can just be patient, and stand in the knowing that doors only shut when new opening doors have initiated the momentum.

With this in mind, I have chosen my own version of the old adage from “When one door closes, another door opens” to “When one door closes, it’s because another one just opened.”

Semantics, I realize. But that small tweak makes the big loud noise of the door slamming more of an invitation to investigate, than an end to the nice breeze.