life help: moving on, giving closure, easier said than done. - Help.com

Some have said that our life is akin to a huge mansion, with hundreds of rooms. We explore the different rooms to see if we like what we see… some rooms we lock closed because we don’t like that… other rooms we live in happily. Most of us are content to live a a dozen rooms or so… locking just as many more… but leaving the rest unexplored.

But if we are exploring and we fail to close the doors behind us… whatever is in that room is bound to follow us. This is what people call “baggage” The more doors in our life that never get closed, the more baggage we will be carrying with us through our mansion (life).

All doors can close, and it’s wise to close them if we choose not to live there. We DON’T have to lock them. And some it’s even safe to revisit sometimes. There is a room in my mansion where my ex girlfriend lives. I’ve had to close that door… it was very difficult to close at first, but eventually it did close. Now I know she’ll live in that little room for the rest of my life… and sometime I revisit it… in my dreams or waking dreams.. but it’s closed. And I closed it because I trusted that a window would open … and it has.

Bright blessings ~ Richard

thanks richard. nice reply. i won’t elaborate for now. suffice it is to say that i will find courage and wisdom to do just like that. and when i’ve done that, i will elaborate more. thanks!