Doors

Since ancient times doors have been used to fend off animals and unwanted tribe members. Humans have used doors as shields throughout history to protect themselves from outside influence and threats. We have known about this concept for so long and so much that we have freely used it in poems, epics and can find various examples of it being used on several occasions by several methods. 

Some great examples of this being used can be "Laxman Rekha" from Ramayana to protect Sita from outside threats and "Vaishno Devi" to protect herself from "Bhairo Nath" OR "Amaterasu" in the "heavenly rock cave" to cut-off herself from the rest of the world. There's a village in India called "Shani Shingnapur" where homes have no front doors, they believe in the protection of their God.

 

Doors can be either open, closed or ajar. In different states of this door, those inside the room behave differently. When the doors are closed we are more open, more carefree. When the door is open, we are closed off and we do things which are socially acceptable in public (even when, we are sure no one is around). When the door is ajar, we may be open but always on-guard, constantly looking out for the creaking of the door, to change ourselves, to wear the mask without which we dread being seen. 

Doors sometimes provide us with an refuge from the harsh reality and cruel world outside our rooms, they allow us to go out in that world and sometimes they give way for the reality to barge in our rooms while allowing us to throw it out too. 

Doors almost always provide way to an another room, an another reality and another mind space. But why do i say that a physical door provide way to another mind space? This question can also be answered by a question! 

 

Do you tend to forget things you were meant to do but forget as soon as you entered the room (through the door)? 

This also happens because you passed through a door and your minds perceives the change as a new reality, it starts to focus on the new surrounding for threats and new data while also temporarily forgetting what you wanted to do in that room to begin with! 

 

Tip: If this happens with you move your eyeballs from side to side while observing the surroundings, this movement triggers the recall portion of the brain and then you remember why you went in that room at all!

There are also certain Japanese videos about some practice in Japan or a tradition of a single home where a child and his grand father live in a house without any walls, and still they only enter or exit the rooms from the frame of a gate, they open the gate and close it, while you can enter the inner portion from the side as well. The video was about rules, regulations and discipline, probably. 

 

 

But,it kind of reminds me of the bird who is staring out of the cage, which psychologists talk about, holding the bars like a prisoner while it could just maneuver around the bar it is holding and fly outside, but it refuses to see that it is trying to move through the alley which is blocked while the main road is completely empty. 

such a roundabout article about doors but it is really about nothing.