{"id":34,"date":"2013-12-03T22:15:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T04:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.petitefreespirit.com\/2013\/12\/the-closed-door\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T19:47:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T00:47:04","slug":"the-closed-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/03\/the-closed-door\/","title":{"rendered":"The Closed Door"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alexander Graham Bell
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<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>At the beginning of November, I was fired from my part-time retail job.\u00a0 When it happened, I was seized with a moment of short-term-thinking-panic (what will I do?, I have no income coming in!, etc.).\u00a0 For those who have faced unemployment, you know that feeling I\u2019m describing \u2013 kind of like free-falling with no safety net.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t mean in the Tom Petty-greatest-hits kind of way.\u00a0 Because I have been downsized a couple of times in the past (and walked away from jobs as well), that moment of short-term-thinking-panic didn\u2019t grip me as fiercely as it has in the past.\u00a0 Nor did it last long.\u00a0 Which was good because I have since had a few doors open for me that are more closely related to my career background (which is not retail) and the direction to which I would like to return career-wise.\u00a0 I worked a short-term assignment that allowed me to enjoy meeting yet another group of new people.\u00a0 Getting to and fro was arduous at best but I pulled off logistical feats that amounted to getting there and back for the three days I was assigned to work.\u00a0 However, that is not the door that fortunately has opened.\u00a0 I am currently on an assignment that feels right because of the location, atmosphere and the people with whom I work.\u00a0 It, too, is a temporary assignment; but for now, it feels as if I am walking a path of open-door opportunities that will lead to a better professional outcome than my more recent experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nIf I turn my head and look behind me, I can see the sky and clouds over New Orleans and the river meandering through the city.\u00a0 I can regard other skyscrapers that dot the skyline \u2013 from an equally high-altitude.\u00a0 The view and the feeling of increased opportunity are priceless.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>Currently, I spend little time looking at the door that closed, instead, I look at the door that has opened.\u00a0 And during moments when I stare out the window into the clouds, I imagine the next greater door\/opportunity that will open as well.<\/span><\/p>\n