Life's like an elevator

IF you are not a jungle dweller then you would probably know what it's like to ride on an elevator. For the majority of us, our lives evolve around going in and out of elevators the whole day, maybe even part of the night.
When you are in an elevator, you just press the number you want. It denotes the floor on which your office is or your penthouse is located, depending on your personal fortune and destiny.
Life's like that. In your adult life, you have pretty much figured out what kind of work you like or are doing, so you just keep at it. Thus, you press the elevator button you want every morning.
Then there are those who change careers, while riding on the elevator of life. Hence, the numbers change. For example, you normally press button 64 on the speed express elevator which covers 150 floors. Since you have switched profession, you now press button 89. The "ride" takes on a different speed. The time taken is longer and you meet more people and different characters sharing the lift with you.
So it is the same with life. Once you decided to move to a different field, you find yourself associating with characters from different backgrounds. If you like these new colleagues of yours, you will stay for the duration.Or, you may decide to stay for life. Whatever your decision, you don't want to leave.
Some people take different lifts. In life's terms, it means going to another country to work. The environment is different, so are the climate and the food. Different locales means adapting to survive or thrive, depending on the individual.
There are some people, like children, pressing as many elevator buttons as possible at one go, just for the fun of it. This happens mostly in your early life when you are in your childhood or teens.
At that age, you want to try everything because to your inexperienced mind and young eyes, everything is colourful and wonderful. "I want to try everything!" is usually the remark from kids. So that explains for pushing of all the elevator buttons.
As you grow older, you begin to dislike elevators. Getting into one sometimes makes you claustrophobic. Elderly people are like that. They prefer to stay at home, in the comfort of their easy chair and not join in the rat race. They have seen most of it already, so why the big fuss.
As you enter the twilight of your earthly existence, the buttons begin to feel like getting up from bed. You tend to be lazy or get addicted to a relaxed existence. Not all elderly people are like that, of course. Some of them just can't wait to jump back into an elevator and ride it all over again.
Elevators go up and down the whole day - just like life. Life has its ups and downs. One stage in your life, you may be scraping the bottom of the barrel. At another stage, you are well off and money is not an issue. This situation is called the vicissitudes of life.
The good thing about looking at life as an elevator is that you always have a chance to go up, if that's what you want, or go down to another floor, if it's your desire.
Up and down has nothing to do with good or bad - viewing from another perspective. It just means you are accumulating experiences. Hopefully, it makes you a better person.
Sometimes when you are in an elevator, you meet the same people so often that after a while, you become friends. Because of the relationship in the elevator every morning or afternoon, one of us or both will become richer as a person. That's life. Every encounter has its benefits. All you need is to look for it.
I haven't even started on escalators yet. I am saving it for another day.
Meanwhile, please press 150 for me. I am going all the way up!!