Channelling my inner Tony Robbins

It is often said: ‘That as one door closes – another one opens’.
I was reminded of this rather ineffective one-liner, as I finished up my job last Friday and off to face a somewhat uncertain outlook – knowing I had no actual job to go to on Monday nor for the foreseeable future. There we all were, the majority of my former colleagues heading off to be part of the newly formed Auckland ‘super city’ Council. Meanwhile there was I – and a handful of others – who were not. Some had chosen to cash in their long years of council service to take the money and run. While the rest of us had been told – in not so many words – that the super city would be just ‘super’ without our services and we could bugger off and leave them to it!
So as yet another person feigned subdued interest about my future employment prospects, and expressed a modified version of the ‘one door closes’ line; I wondered where this statement originated from.
I have always been pretty sure this cheesy quote came from one of those ‘glass half-full’, motivational speaker types, who tend to infest the business speaking circuit nowadays. I can just imagine someone like Tony Robbins spurting out this crap at one of his awful seminars, and his audience of suckers – having shelled a thousand or so bucks a head to hear his all-teeth and sun tan pearls of wisdom – lapping it up this puerile rubbish as easily as they buy another one of his putrid self help books.
However, a bit of research – well... banging it into Google – and it turns out it wasn’t the aforementioned Mr Robbins, or any of his motivational-type mates who came up with this line. Instead it turns out ‘one door closes and other opens’ is a line used by the title character Don Quixote in the novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes in the early 1600s.
Now just what the hell a Spanish novelist in the 15th Century would know about corporate restructures or motivation has got me buggered. However, then again, what the hell would Tony Robbins really know about this either?
All I am saying is that the next person who blissfully suggests to me – after learning about my current employment (or more correctly unemployment) situation – that ‘when one door closes another one opens’ is likely to have the nearest door slammed in to their well-meaning, insincere face!