closing doors

Theme From Mahogany (do You Know Where You're Going To?)

Do you know where you're going to?

Do you like the things that life is showing you?

Where are you going to?

Do you know...?

Do you get

What you're hoping for

When you look behind you

There's no open door

What are you hoping for?

Do you know...?

Once we were standing still in time

Chasing the fantasies

That filled our minds

You knew how I loved you

But my spirit was free

Laughin' at the questions

That you once asked of me

Do you know where you're going to?

Do you like the things that life is showing you?

Where are you going to?

Do you know...?

Now looking back at all we've planned

We let so many dreams

Just slip through our hands

Why must we wait so long

Before we'll see

How sad the answers

To those questions can be

Do you know where you're going to?

Do you like the things that life is showing you

Where are you going to?

Do you know...?

Do you get

What you're hoping for

When you look behind you

There's no open door

What are you hoping for?

Do you know...?

Something happened a few months back, and it made me think of this song. I have slammed too many doors in the past. I always believed I would be able to go back someday. Or maybe, I thought, it would not matter, one way or the other. I always walked away without turning back. At any rate, that time, I got to thinking that doors will not forever remain unlocked. What if one day I decide to return, and found them locked? What happens then? Do I knock? What if there is no one, and nothing, I know of inside? So, I thought of going back. If doors slammed on my face, so be it. It would not be me with the unfinished business this time. I would have been free of those doors.

But there are doors I simply couldn't go back to. My pride would not let me. And so the feeling passed. I decided not to go back. As always, with me, pride wins.