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Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out!

By
Home Inspector with Charles Buell Inspections Inc.

     Life can be viewed as a room full of doors connected to rooms full of doors.

     All we have to do is figure out which doors to open and which doors to leave closed.  As long as they don’t hit us in the butt when we go through them we usually do OK.

     While it might be “comfortable” to not open any doors----we kind of opened the door about “opening doors” when we were born.  By the time we get old enough to realize that we have a choice about the doors we open (even between seemingly identical doors); we have already opened quite a few of the wrong doors----along with the many correct ones that we have opened. 

     Some of the doors that we learned how to “pick” the locks on----perhaps should have been left locked.  There were likely lots of other less attractive doors that remained unopened----and some that were just not recognized as doors.

     While some doors will let us back-track into previous rooms----others slam shut with the certainty of a sunset---or a sunrise.  Even rooms that we do find our way back into never look quite the same after being in the others.

     And don’t you hate those doors left seductively ajar?

     And yes, it is a good idea to avoid the ones with bars whenever possible----but sometimes even those are required of us.

     There are very few rooms with no doors to other rooms----except perhaps the last one. 

     When you find yourself in such a room----with seemingly no door----you might have to use a window.  There is usually a way out---or in---depending on how you are looking at the situation.

     Then there are the doors that merely take us to the place where we already are.

The Door to where you are

     And isn’t that the way it is anyway?

     Then again perhaps life is a box of chocolates after all.

 

PS

     Was the internet invented because of the demise of keyholes?

Charles Buell

 

 

 

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Amy Hahn
Pine Knoll Shores Realty - Morehead City, NC
Realtor/Broker - Crystal Coast, NC

Charles,

You are really making me think this morning...not ready for that yet. Maybe I should've left the door to your blog closed for a while longer! :-} Where on earth did you get that photo of the door that will take us where we already are.  I Love it!

Oct 28, 2009 01:36 AM
Charles Buell
Charles Buell Inspections Inc. - Seattle, WA
Seattle Home Inspector

Amy, too late now:)  The door was an a recent inspection.

Oct 28, 2009 01:39 AM
Carol Culkin
Diamond Partners Inc - Overland Park, KS
Overland Park Residential Real Estate

Charlie - A client of mine lost her job and when I expressed empathy she told me that for every door that closes, another one opens.  What a positive attitude and how true!

Oct 28, 2009 02:45 AM
Russell Lewis
Realty Austin, Austin Texas Real Estate - Austin, TX
Broker,CLHMS,GRI

I love that picture and also enjoy your attitude!

"There is usually a way out---or in---depending on how you are looking at the situation."

Oct 28, 2009 03:01 AM
JL Boney, III
Coldwell Banker - Columbia, SC
Columbia, SC Real Estate

At some point in life you just have to take a chance and open a door. It might not always lead exactly where you want to go, but it does take you forward. Eventually we all get to where we are supposed to be.

Oct 28, 2009 03:10 AM
Toni Weidman
Sailwinds Realty - Trinity, FL
20+ Years Selling Homes in New Port Richey, FL

That's what is so exciting about doors! Ya never know! Loved the blog and the door. Did it pass inspection?

Oct 28, 2009 03:13 AM
David Helm
Helm Home Inspections - Bellingham, WA
Bellingham, Wa. Licensed Home Insp

The door to perception is perpetually open,but few can fully pass through it.  Now if Jim Morrison were reading this blog, what do you suppose he would say?

Oct 28, 2009 07:52 AM
Charles Buell
Charles Buell Inspections Inc. - Seattle, WA
Seattle Home Inspector

Carol, it is true---sometimes the door just binds.

Russell, thanks

JL----it is really important to "choose" where we are or it will always look like the wrong room

Toni, passed as far as I was concerned---was good for blog fodder:)

David are you sure he isn't?:)

Oct 28, 2009 08:46 AM
Steven L. Smith
King of the House Home Inspection, Inc. - Bellingham, WA
Bellingham WA Home Inspector

Mr Charles,

It all is coming back to me now. Those are the words you said to me, the title of your post, the last time I visited you and was going home.

Nutsy

Oct 28, 2009 12:50 PM
Charles Buell
Charles Buell Inspections Inc. - Seattle, WA
Seattle Home Inspector

Does the tail still have a kink in it?

Oct 28, 2009 04:11 PM
Heather Adkinson
Windermere K-2 Realty LLC www.propertiesinmoseslake.com - Moses Lake, WA
Real Estate Agent - Moses Lake

I am just throughly confused but then maybe it's because it's so late at night.

Oct 28, 2009 04:43 PM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Again, with the chocolates thing!  Wow, don't you ever get enough?

Oct 29, 2009 01:21 PM
Erby Crofutt
B4 U Close Home Inspections&Radon Testing (www.b4uclose.com) - Lexington, KY
The Central Kentucky Home Inspector, Lexington KY

Uhh, OK. What a door at the end.  I'm not sure I'd ever open that one.  Just weird, both the post and the picture.

Well, time to close this door and open another.  Think I'll just poke my head in without going thru it.

 

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Oct 29, 2009 02:37 PM
Charles Buell
Charles Buell Inspections Inc. - Seattle, WA
Seattle Home Inspector

Heather---trust me when I say that it is more likely that it is me that is confused:)

Jay---not a chance:)

Erby, good idea to stay out of that last room as long as you can:)

Oct 29, 2009 03:29 PM
Erby Crofutt
B4 U Close Home Inspections&Radon Testing (www.b4uclose.com) - Lexington, KY
The Central Kentucky Home Inspector, Lexington KY

I'm sure not in any hurry to get there anytime soon!

 

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Oct 31, 2009 02:23 AM
Charles Buell
Charles Buell Inspections Inc. - Seattle, WA
Seattle Home Inspector

Erby I am sure with you on that:)

Nov 05, 2009 07:18 AM