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Why not seize the Pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation? I think that this statement means go do whatever makes you happy and do not think twice about it. Don=t let anyone or any thing stop you.

I agree with the statement. In life do what makes you happy because life is short. In the story Athe door in the wall@the main character Lionel dies before he finds happiness. Every time he saw the white wall with the  green door Lionel did not take the opportunity to go through. He was always doing some thing else at the time.

          One of the themes from Athe door in the wall@is take opportunities when they come to you. Lionel tried to prepare himself to go through the door the next time it appeared. However, if he went through the door and not thought about it he would be in the garden playing games with the friends he made. When he left the garden he could not remember the games played. The garden was full of beautiful green plant life and animals. In the garden it was peaceful and there were white doves there. For the first time he felt like he was at home. The garden is the total opposite of his real life. 

Lionel was looking to find happiness in that garden. His father was never there for him because he was working. The garden was the happiness he never had as a kid. When he grew up, he was like his father. His father is very strict and focused on his job. Lionel had responsibilities now and he did not have time to imagine or play.

Lionel spent his life looking and waiting for the door. He tried to prepare and never found the joy of the garden he found before. He was caught between to very different worlds. In the end he thought he found the door but it took him to his end and not to the garden that he wanted to return to and the one that felt like home. 

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