junecleavage

"The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground."
~Margaret Mead

Sometimes doors have to be closed - shut tightly behind us - and locked full force - if we are to move past what is dragging us down.
I don't think there is anything wrong with visiting what is trapped behind them through the whispers of memory - but in real time present day reality - they need to remain scrap book stardust. Otherwise we cannot grow. Otherwise we become replicas of the very thing we are trying to remove - stale, bitter, cigarette butts of a mistaken identity rather than the vibrant and ever changing kaleidescope of the person we are.
We closed a door this weekend.
For the last time.
It will never be opened again.
And I am extremely grateful for that.