It’s been more than a year and a half I have been parking my car at the PG8 of the HP's Houston office, formerly the headquarters of Compaq. It takes a 5 minutes walk from my desk through the elevator to the PG8 exit. As you exit the revolving gate, you encounter a few familiar faces waiting for one of the three elevators at the garage to stop with a screeching tone similar to the windows error message tone. Some people have very little patience or may be because of a feeling of guilt and satisfaction of taking the stairs instead of the elevator. Satisfaction of self-explaining theory that "Well I don’t need to go the gym because I take the stairs every day". Strange it may sound, but true. Guilt of not able to motivate one self to drag one's body to the gym or the nearby park for a jog.
Anyways, for all these months, I have chosen the Elevator-home-motivate-go-to-gym way. But until recently we had not observed a flaw that even when you press the UP button first and then the DOWN button for the elevator, the elevator to go down comes first. One day, I was thinking out loud - why this happens? And then Raghu, my friend said - "If you want to down in life, there are faster ways to get there". Down elevator takes you the underground parking spot which is dark and wet and no radio or phone signals. Up takes you to an open parking place with natural light and fresh air. The top most is the open sky parking at level seven. This made me think that the unusual behavior of the elevator(I believe in Science and believe that any equipment built and maintained by the specializing companies, OTIS for instance always innovate to make equipments function better) was not merely a electronic flaw, it was a way of demonstrating human tendency of going down. The lift for going up always comes late. An indication of persistence, faith, determination, patience - whatever you want to call it - Things that take you UP in your life towards your goals comes late. Even when you always have more possibility of going down and going down fast, you always have two buttons in your life to press. Just wait a little longer if you want to reach the bright SKY parking level at seven. Way to the shallow parking place at the underground Lower level two is easy. Hold on, it's on the way.
