Many days, I spend a lot of time banging on doors. After all, that's
pretty much what applying for jobs is. You stand outside, pulling out
all the stops you know how, to try to get someone to open the door to a place you can't even
see because you are standing outside the solid door. Though you may be
eager for the door to open so that you can get in, often you don't even
really know what you will find on the other side. You just know
that it is a door you've heard you should want to get through.
Sometimes, however, you have the opportunity to look in a window.
Instead of banging on a door, unsure if anyone will answer, and unclear
about what will happen if someone does, you get to observe what is going
on inside. There is no guarantee--none at all--that you will be invited
in, but for a short time, you can see what it is you think you might
want to be in on. You can observe how it is done, perhaps get answers to
your questions, all without having to bang and wonder. All the banging
in the world might leave you tired, no more informed, and no closer to
having the door open, but a few hours looking through a window can at
least allow you to see what might (or might not) be worth getting in
for.
The banging on doors will likely continue--that's just part of our daily
journey. But if we can spend a little more time looking in windows, and
really learning from what we see, we'll be a lot more likely to walk
through the doors of the places where we're really meant to be.
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