There's an old saying...
I'm sure you're familiar. It goes something like...
"When one door closes,
another door opens."
Or is it, "When a door closes,
a window opens."?
You're probably wondering if I have a point here, which I actually do. Some of you may recall my recent post, where I ranted on and on about how much I hate applying for exhibitions. Well, the rejections have started rolling in, and I could just hear the doors slamming! I started to feel a little... less than hopeful, I guess you could say.
But then, yesterday, a strange and unexpected thing happened. I got an email from a gallery saying that they have chosen me for a solo show! I'm still not convinced that it's not some sort of mistake. I hear a voice in my head saying, "This just doesn't happen to me."
As a student of Buddhism and other philosophies, I know that our thoughts do create our reality. I think we expect what we get used to, and those thoughts can become a habit, a pattern, a self-fulfilling prophecy. My point is this: when you're busy focusing on the closed door, it's hard to notice the open one.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
- William James
- William James
