Some doors swing wide with grand gestures. Others creak open just enough for you to peek inside. And then there are the ones you should slam shut so hard the hinges quake. Life is an endless hallway of doors—opportunity, distraction, self-discovery, and closure—and our job is learning which ones deserve our knock. The Comedy of Opening Doors Dr. Diane Urban (2017) tells a story about George , a character who spirals into chaos over something as trivial as soiled pants. Urban draws on a memorable exchange from the movie Beethoven (1992): in the middle of domestic chaos, a character named George becomes unreasonably upset over something almost absurd—his pants. The witty admonition—“Just change your pants, George”—carries unexpected weight. It suggests that when life starts feeling overwhelming, sometimes the smartest move is the simplest one: shift your frame of reference, change what you can control, and let the rest roll off. Her point? Sometimes life hands you nonsense at the ...