There’s a saying that when one door closes, another door opens. This can be taken as encouragement to rebound from a loss, or an unfortunate circumstance. Or it can be taken as: a new opportunity will be opened if the opportunity we sought does not pan out.
We will go through life with disappointments. But in the event of the disappointments, we adapt, and we redefine our expectations of what is feasible and what we ought to achieve. Besides, each year and each decade of our lives, we strive for new goals–goals that reflect our changing beliefs and attitudes about life.
We don’t always know the reasons for the things that we didn’t achieve, even when we put our all into them. It’s as if with each setback, we’re continually forced to adapt, to change, to reinvent ourselves in a way where we don’t get stuck so that we can achieve the things, that in hindsight, we were meant to.
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