Before the Law

<Tab/><Tab/><Tab/> Before the Law In Before the Law, a man from the country asks for permission to enter the Law. He can see through the open door into the Law, but the doorkeeper rejects him entry. The man is then warned that while this is only the first of many doors and doorkeepers, each more unwelcoming and horrifying than the last, …

…doorkeeper. Rather than plunge ahead and take the risk, he chooses to wait. In the end he dies, never to know what is on the other side. Perhaps if he had spent more time in the pursuit of his own fulfillment, instead of wasting his life hoping for an ideal he could never achieve, he would have realized that we each, in turn, create our own gate, equipped with unrealistic expectations of what lays beyond.