Be Open

I like this saying: "Minds are like parachutes.  They won't work if they are not open."  How true for my mind as we come to the end of another year.  How open have I been to new things, or a deeper meaning in some person, place and situation?  Looking back, I see that I tend to make up my mind, then close off to any more information, intuition, or doubt.  Something is so and that is it.  Then I go into free fall, to crash onto my own rocky opinions.  So I am going to try to stay open.  There are second opinions, options and behavior that will be open to me if I just pull the cord on my closed mind.  I don't like heights!