There are times we decide to close the door on some relationships. We have our reasons and may well be justified in moving on. Even as we shut some people out of our lives, we need to be mindful that as we close the door, we don’t lock it.

Time heals in a manner that we cannot visualise when we are upset. As we move on in life, we often rise above the distant past and leave room for new beginnings. Our willingness and ability to let someone back into our life comes from our deeper understanding that rebuilding bridges is always better than burning bridges.

Sometimes people change and reach out. As difficult as it may be, it is easier to live with resolution rather than anger and hurt, and grudge. When we accommodate the change in someone, we too change, growing in our sense of abundance.

Strange are the ways of life, and sometimes we unexpectedly reconnect with people we have had a strained relationship with and find ourselves on the same side of a situation. We are always better off finding a way to be supportive rather than hostile. It could well be life’s way of helping us set things right with someone whom we had once held very dear.

Friends, families, and even nations often fight bitterly. When doors get locked, sworn never to be reopened, not only do we harden, we shut out a warmth from within which leaves us silently cold and bitter. Others may not see it, but in our time with ourselves we know that a part of us is not at peace.

When the time is right, opportunities will come knocking in the most unexpected ways to once again allow someone back into our life. When deep down we feel it is the right thing to reopen the door, we will need to find it in ourselves to rise above the past and build a better future. But we can only do that if we have kept the door unlocked.

(Picture – San Marco Square, Venice )