a thought came to me after watching Conan O'Brien's interview at Inside the Actor's Studio, that a career is just like riding an elevator not knowing which floor you'll end up at.
while you're at the bottom or at the start, someone can occupy the elevator up there and not go down to let you go on.
but sometimes you encounter very nice people who would hold the doors and wait for you to enter, while you're frantically try to run to it 10 meters away.
if you're lucky, your ride up will be smooth without any stops in between.
or you could be unlucky, having to stop very often for others.
or even worse, you could have super bad luck being mugged, robbed, and hurt by someone in the elevator.
and at the worst case scenario, the elevator cable snaps, both the elevator booth and you fall to a certain death.
of course, it'd be nice if you can ride it all the way to the top and enjoy your scenery there.
afterall, that's what all of us secretly wanted from the bottom of the heart.
