Saturday, July 25, 2015

Banging On Doors, Looking in Windows

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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