I’ve heard this saying a few ways, that when one door closes, another one opens. Or that when a door closes, someone opens a window. No matter how you say it though, it appears that there is always a way out, or a new path. Sure, you might have just hit a wall. Maybe that door closed right as you were about to walk through it and instead you walked face first into it, and now you’re on the floor. You might even feel like you have hit rock bottom.

But once you get up, brush yourself off, and turn around you see that other door, or that window. It might be dark and mysterious and you’re a little hesitant to go through it, or maybe you can see a light coming from it, and you know you’re meant to go through it

Either way, it’s going to be better than standing still in front of the closed door. That isn’t going to get you anywhere.

It’s hard to see any kind of positivity at times when it feels like nothing is going right, or rather, the way you want them to go. It’s easy to stand in the bathroom at work and cry and feel stuck and miserable but something else is going to open eventually.

I firmly believe in trying to radiate positive energy. No matter how sad I am on the inside, I try not to let it show. Some may call it bottling up my emotions, but I see it more as exerting positive vibes because I find that you often receive positive energy back.

A little over a week ago I felt stuck. Unhappy at work, I felt like I couldn’t risk leaving because I knew that if I were financially unstable, I would be even worse off than I was then.

On top of that, I could feel my relationship ending. I could sense that things were not right, and upon ending it, I felt even more alone, lost and hurt.

Feeling very sore from hitting what I thought was rock bottom, the very next day, an opportunity falls into my lap. A dreamlike job, an interview, and then a job offer, all within the week. Once second, I’m crying in the bathroom at work over a dumb boy who broke my heart, and the next I was reading an email that offered me a job that felt like it was made for me.

I was flying high. I was going out with friends, celebrating my achievements, meeting new people and even won article of the week at The Odyssey. It was incredible. How could I go from feeling so low, unhappy at work and newly single, to feeling so incredibly happy?

I wonder if my relationship had worked out if this job would have fallen into my lap. I guess I'll never really know. But the timing seemed far too perfect to be considered coincidental.

The answer lies within the door, or window that opened. A new job, a fresh start, the universe was responding to the positive energy I’ve been putting out, despite the recent storm of negativity on the inside.

For the next two weeks, I’ll be tying up any loose ends at work, excited to move on to the next chapter of my life, where I’ll have the opportunity to wake up every day and be excited to go to work and where I’ll have many opportunities to travel. It wasn’t that the last chapter of my life wasn’t great, it just had a sad ending. And while I may still be healing from running right smack into a door that was closing, it seems I’ve slipped through the open window, and I know I’m going to be just fine.