Revolving Doors
Wed Nov 29 2006

Don’t you just hate it when it happens? You’ve got the feeling that you are doing everything right and then the feedback tells - it was all wrong that you’ve done?..not that you cannot re-do, amend, change, mind you, not irreversible, all in your powers, yet still…nasty little discomfort creeps into your mind and you feel if not embarrassed then at least as if you let yourself down…crap…I am still to learn to back down in grace when the things I’ve done go wrong…and of course eventually I will surprise myself with what is possible…I always do…eventually…I’m wondering though…sometimes I'm  backing down because I like somebody else to have the advantage, sometimes I am loosing the challenge because I like somebody else to win…and sometimes I walk away because I like someone else to step in...in work, in friendship, in life...yet I still don't seem to develop that "thick skin" defence…and I still don't seem to able to be cool about it...so me thinking here…when we ever learn at last ?..or maybe it should be a question of will we ever learn?..

Today I developed a fondness for revolving doors…literally…when passing through revolving doors today, I couldn’t help, but walked one circle more within them…somehow it felt as if this is a proper thing to do, that it will give me that extra time to think of the purpose of me going inside…A thought came to mind that I might eventually enter the same place from where I came…and a thought of loosing sense of direction came too…and another thought of being observed by all those people standing around, waiting until I get myself out of the rotating trap…somewhat disturbing feeling of making a fool of self…it happened twice today – the revolving doors didn’t want to let me just slip through them unnoticed…I wonder if this has any meaningful meaning…
5 Comments
  • From:
    Nibbles (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Nov 29 2006
    Sounds like a deep meaning to me.
  • From:
    (Unauthenticated) (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Nov 29 2006
    Interesting piece. I paid close attention to the latter part of your work and based my analysis on "the revolving door", metaphorically. There is an odd often apprehensive feeling when life takes you back to where you originally came. Going through a revolving door is retroactive and regressive.

    Remember, Lana, you never have to go through that door, if you choose not to.

    I thank you for the critique. The phrase, "the revolving door" is a cliche. So I revised it.

    Listen if you ever come to the Big Apple again let me know.

    siaka
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Nov 29 2006
    Revolving doors, huh? That does take some thinking.

    Thinking about doing it over again? Going round in circles?

    Maybe.

    Shalom
  • From:
    Dreamerbooks2003 (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Nov 29 2006
    Your writing brings thoughts to my mind of the revolving cycles .. round they go
    I noticed some of my hidden life .. a lie.. or a half truth.. that I have hidden even from myself..
    Oh I have so far to go
    If the door doesn't push me in the arse as I try to go through
  • From:
    StillLife (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Nov 30 2006
    I love revolving doors. Something very zen about staying in a revolving door, but perhaps the zen part comes most from training oneself to NOT notice all the people watching one make a fool of oneself.