Books

This is a popular quote:

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell

I'm not entirely sure I see things that way, though.

I feel like life happens in chronicles, like a book series. It's more like, at any given time we can be immersed in one (or several) particular stories. Sometimes they end naturally, and sometimes we can choose to close them.

Sometimes, a book ends, and we don't pick up another again for a while. We coast. It's kind of like in that terrible movie "Click" with Adam Sandler - we go into kind of an autopilot, and just see where life takes us without actively taking any part.

Maybe that's why I like to be reading something at all times. I never used to be that way, but now, when I finish one story I always feel the need to immerse myself in another. I kind of feel the same way about real life, too. I'm always part of some story, some adventure, that I need to see through to the end. The only difference is that, here, I'm writing the chronicles. I can choose to close my own book. Like, when I decide I really don't want to go out with that girl I've had a crush on for a while ... closed book. Let's move on to a new story.

How many books am I reading right now? Literally, just one (George Orwell's 1984). Figuratively ... ?

... way more than one, that's for sure. While I've closed some books recently, I'm still feverishly writing many others.



I think I'd like to write my own book someday. For real, that is.