WHEN DO YOU OPEN A NEW DOOR?
Today, a friend of mine told me that she is about to change her life. She is going to leave her job, leave her friends, pack her belongings into cardboxes and put them in friend's garage, move to another city, actually - move to another continent. She is 55. She is divorced and her only son, who is 32, moved to another side of the world a few years ago. He found a job there, got married. She visited him a few times and she liked it there. She doesn't speak any English, although she has been trying to painstakingly learn some phrases. She has no savings and her son doesn't have a steady income or a secure job. But she sounded so enthusiastic about the whole thing, not a bit worried or scared. She has spent her whole life in this little town of ours working as a hairdresser, and now she is ready to move on and leave everything so easily. In her thoughts she is already far away, making plans, looking forward to the day her son is going to send her a plane ticket. She said she had always known that eventually one day she was going to leave this place. And the moment has come, she says. So, she is going to close the doors of both her hairdresser's salon and her tiny flat, ( and btw return the keys to the landlords as she doesn't own neither of these places) and she is going to open a new door somewhere else. Behind the door, I wish her to find something she deserves, something to make her happy.
Anyway, it got me wondering when is the right time to leave everything behind and open a new door? Some people never have courage to do that.
KNOCK, knock!
Who's there?
Your new life.
And finally.... this is the door in Canterbury. I have passed by this door so many times!!! Every time I go to England, we stop in Canterbury, and on our way from the coach park to the centre of the town, here it is. Old, kind of drunk and funny looking, a place to stop and take a picture. But I have never tried to open this door. I don't know what is behind it. As I am going to Canterbury in 27 days (27/03) I am sure to knock at this door and even try to open it. I will let you know what is behind it.
This photo is taken by Rahela Rachel Pavušin, in summer 2007.
