Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 07, 2016

Hmm. This little old woman showing Danae around will turn out to be her at 84 or 94, right?

Ab-solutely Brilliant, Sir! Now I’m looking forward to all the twisty little passages, all alike!

Thanks for this story about Kate…..She doesn’t get enough face time…You’re the best, man….

Let’s make a deal Katy.Door #1, door #2, or door #3?

……I am the master of my fate,I am the captain of my soul.W E Henley

Doing nothing gets you nowhere.Doing something, no matter how it works out, brings wisdom. Child to parent: what is winning?Parent: overcoming obstacles to be reach a goal.

Child: what is failing?Parent: learning

Experience helps you avoid mistakes. Mistakes are what give you experience.

This is like the movie, “13 Going On 30”, in a way. I wonder if this is the end of the comic strip? I hope not.

One thing is for certain though… if you don’t know where you’re going, chances are you’ll never get there.

Looking back it seemed like every career choice I made was the wrong one, but now here I am doing something I enjoy doing and can do better than most.

Choosing the next door may be as difficult as ever but, hindsight being as clear as it is, it gets easier to tell which door already chosen was the wrong one.

Oh yes, you can choose your choices, however, you can’t choose your consequences…..

“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

A mystery and a dilemma enclosed in what we all go through; an enigma. For some reason Kate is given an insight which she will probably not completely remember. It might be that she has been preparing for just that subtile insight. And Danae’s influence has stimulated that spark with the help of Petey and a squirrel led her to the moments.

“There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.”Jim Morrison – Paraphrasing Aldous Huxley’s “The Doors of Perception”

Since I have passed through the last door visible in the panel, I am thoroughly enjoying this little journey in the world of maturation…

Recently opened a door numbered 80. Looking forward todoor 90. Seems it was just a year ago I walked through door4, & it took forever to reach 5. As time went on, doors came quicker. Now doors are opened in a matter of weeks.

Reminds me of the song story of a guy at train station trying to buy tickets to Morrow. “Sorry son, the train to Morrow left this morning”!

I don’t think the choices are necessary easier, as we get older. Rather we are faced with a different set of doors.

Experience has brought us trepidation in the guise of caution. The impetuosity and foolhardiness of the brave youth, has given way to deliberative sensibility of fearful elder.

We no longer rush headlong through those doors with joyous expectation of adventure and new beginnings. Now, we slowly open and with slowing step creep towards certainty, diminishment, and eventual demise.

Still, when I passed through the door marked 70, I did so with as much, if not more, enthusiasm and joy and definitely more appreciation of love and life then when I passed through the doors marked 21, 35, 40, or 50 ! Those were milestones passed. I look forward to opening those doors marked 90 and 100 !

Good judgement comes from having experience.Experience comes from having bad judgment.

I swear I had this moment when I was 6. It lasted 5 seconds, and now I play video games every day I can.

@gazperson, I think you are right! It will be interesting to see if your prediction is correct.

Not all of life’s decisions are made with the flip of a coin. Know your options.

Monty Hall is probably behind one of the doors……..

with any of my really big choices there has been no doubt . it was something I HAD To Do. Those are the choices that define what matters. When I was 12 I had a vision of myself at age 40ish. I could tell from my appearance I was well and happy. Then, 35 yrs later I found myself Pulled to walk up the stairs!I remembered seeing “me” so many years before. I thought, “what should I say to me? what can I say?”.I worried that anything I told myself might stop me from taking some of those paths I took that lead me to be who I am today.I wouldn’t want to miss any of the twists and turns. so I said nothing, just like when I first viewed the older me, I walked up the stairs and turned toward my old bedroom and smiled :) For me the choices feel like things that I can’t Not do. or I’d be regretting it for ever and ever. I still don’t know where I am heading. I just know what roads not to take. sometimes it means you sit and wait. that’s my choice anyway.

Why do I get the feeling that Katie will wind up looking in a mirror?

Only after you stop caring.

We seem to have a game of four going on.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Ringo will probably be behind door number 64.

@JP Steve: That story has always been one of the small irritating nigglings in the back of my brain. . .which do you think came out?

Oops! You’re right — I do mean Kate! But that suggests another twist: perhaps the elderly woman will be the elderly Danae?