OPINION: Holding doors more than just common courtesy

By Guillermo “Memo” Moreno
Bridge Staff Writer
Published Friday, Sept. 26, 2025

A building and its doors. Every hour, every day, there is a consecutive input and output of students. Yet, there is an underlying position for tension. These tensions are involuntary and spontaneous. Is it the attempt at chivalry that can make it awkward to walk through a door sometimes—or—Is it the fact that the majority of our social skills have dissolved?

This chivalry is considered gender neutral, where many can view simply holding a door as something from muscle memory. Whereas others have assumed the doors will always be opened for them.

This leaves oneself to ask, Do the hinges we pull hold the meaning behind every one of us? It reveals not only our own restrictions from reaching out, to not only people, but future opportunities as well.

Doors aren’t just a symbol of possible restrictions; they’re opportunities to grow and one might see someone through each passage that may bring back old or new future inceptions.

This leaves doors with the hidden and subsequent memories of those who pass through them as time passages, leaving the mark on ourselves of not only what we would have done, but what we can still do.