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Door to greatness

There is a doorway I walk through every morning in our home. Behind that door I wake up and decide this day is going to be great, today I will do all the things. There is always something to look forward to the day. All I have to do is walk through that magical doorway.

Doorways have an interesting effect on us. Especially the appropriately named "the doorway effect", the one where we forgot what we were about to do as soon as we step through one of those portals. 

So no matter what I decide to achieve in a day might get lost as soon as I step out. How many good ideas have I lost? How many inspired mornings have I left behind? I have no way to know, as those are all forgotten. I wonder what I could achieve if I'd just remembered all those waking thoughts every day after walking out of the bedroom.

But I still have to take that step, nothing gets done from the comfort of the bed. It's a paradox: stay in bed, inspired with all those ideas, or step out determined to do all those things, hoping to not step into a parallel universe with all those thoughts left behind.