Of Elevators and Stairs

They say every person has a lot of love to give and that love makes the world go round. But all around you, there are people desperate to be noticed, to be appreciated, to be loved. Seeing this, you begin to wonder if what they say is true. You doubt this because you’ve been through the pains of unrequited love yourself.


It’s really a complex thing but I wish to explain it in a basic standpoint. I’ll compare it to elevators and stairs. Imagine going to an establishment with just one elevator. You’re in a hurry to get a ride up but it’s jam-packed and this disappoints you but you still decide to wait. You look nowhere else but at the elevator door, not knowing that behind you, there’s a stairway. You keep on waiting and waiting, hoping the elevator would go back down quickly but it got stuck because of a glitch in its machination; it’ll take long to fix it. You become so frustrated. Now, if only you took the time to look around, you’d have seen the stairs. And instead of wasting your time waiting on an elevator that’s never going to be available when you want it to be, you could’ve used the stairs and still reached the floor where you wanted to go.


It’s the same way with loving. You try so hard to be the best, so the person you love will notice you. You wait so long for your feelings to be returned, only for it to turn out you were waiting for nothing. And in all the time that you focused on that person, you failed to appreciate another one who thrives in your existence. Someone who is also doing everything to be the perfect one you’ll love and like. It’s just like focusing too much on the elevator and not minding the stairs, isn’t it? You may feel like it’s not right. But think of it this way, if you feel that you have it hard loving someone who doesn’t love you, do you think it’s any different for that person who’s doing everything just to be loved by you? I guess love is unfair that way.