How easy it is to put a
curtain up on a window and then forget about it. We open and close
curtains in an automatic way, rarely stopping to reflect on what curtains
do. It reveals and it hides. It covers and it uncovers. A curtain can
remind us of ourselves. We open up at time, close up at other times.
Usually, we open up when we feel comfortable and trusting, and we close
up when we want to be protected from being hurt.
What
makes us like open curtains? Trust and love. Closed curtains?
Mistrust, fear, suspicion. Curtains can teach us a great deal about what
kind of people we really are. Mostly closed? Mostly open? Suspicious
and unloving? Trusting and loving? A closed curtain prevents the sun
from shining in. Do we keep others from us by being closed? Reprinted with permission from “Little Things Mean A Lot” by Marie
McIntyre; all rights reserved, © 1985.
