Do you always make sure to leave an open door behind in your goodbyes?

Question

or do you just leave and never look behind?

Answer 1

I like to close the door, otherwise leaving is a sham done for attention.

Plus it's rude to leave the door open.

Answer 2

you never know who you will see again or who you won't. life is never only goodbye but a hope to see you later. i leave when i have to and let people go when it is time. i miss some and forget most.

Answer 3

Jobs, yes. Relationships, hopefully, but not always possible or practical and for some, downright dangerous. So the overall answer would be, no.

Answer 4

In my youth I was this kind of person who would never ever look back at what I left behind...Always looking forward!

But with time,  age and experience,  I grew in maturity (I'd like to believe so!).  Now I don't slam the door shut!  Whoever wants to catch up with me is welcome...

Answer 5

There's a time for each. Most often I leave the door open (even when I don't look back), but there are those times when closing the door (and even locking it) is the best option.

Answer 6

I would like to join the metaphor party. :)

Umm... essentially, I close the door.  But then I keep looking behind, even though I just see the door.  This could just be my own case, but I think the very idea of closing or leaving open a door is just an illusion of control.  Things still happen, and often it's the supposed vicissitude of fate that moves the door anyway.  Maybe, in a relationship of any kind, you still have a feeling you don't know you have, and it grows.  Or... well, 'or' ad nauseum, I guess.

Answer 7

Open door and unburned bridges -- whenever I can.

Answer 8

I almost always leave an open door. There are very occasional times, however, when walking away and not looking back best fits.

Answer 9

...an open door policy for a few...burn the bridges for some...

...a ping pong table for all...

...im happy with my lifestyle...thank you...