Mental Illness is an Elevator Buzzer

In a life filled with a sense of confinement, it is easy for anyone to harbor gloomy feelings. Some people may reach a state referred to as mental illness, and there are quite a few who are struggling just before reaching that point. Many people have also managed to break free from that state.

Let's talk about elevators.

When the buzzer sounds due to being overweight, the last person to board is seen as the cause, and eyes turn toward them. However, in reality, everyone who boarded the elevator is the cause of the excess weight.

Even if it looks like a cause-and-effect relationship at first glance, it is not necessarily correct to explain it as a one-to-one situation. If you do not look at the situation from a bird's-eye view, you will overlook what is important.

Especially with mental illness, it is difficult to find a single cause, and it is discovered as an "illness" because various factors have a complex influence.

Therefore, like an elevator buzzer, if you only focus on the "last person to board," you cannot solve the fundamental problem. If you have that person get off, the buzzer will stop, but if someone else gets on, even if it happens to be a slender child, the buzzer might sound again.

"Can't you even let one small child like this on?"

If you hear such voices from outside, you should just show them the inside and let them see for themselves.

It is a difficult task to increase the weight capacity of an elevator once it has been installed. Since it is a structural feature, it would have to be rebuilt from the ground up. That is not realistic.

What is important is to know the weight capacity of the elevator and to carefully assess what the situation inside the elevator is like. Is there someone strange who won't get off no matter how many times it goes up and down? Is there a giant who takes up the space of five people? Is there an eccentric person clinging to the ceiling? Is the fire extinguisher in the corner really necessary? Maybe the excessive luggage should be carried later.

The performance and operation methods of elevators vary from person to person. It is not a matter of being good or bad. Since even an elevator stops when the buzzer sounds, there is no reason why the human heart, which is much more delicate than that, should not be allowed to stop.

If the buzzer goes off, it might be best to have everyone get off once.

You can look for another elevator, or if you are in a hurry, you can use the stairs.

Try moving it up and down with nothing on it, and if you think it's okay, try letting people on again. If the buzzer sounds even when nothing is on it, that must be a malfunction somewhere, so let's call an expert for maintenance.

Elevators are amazing, aren't they?

Every single day, many times over. They carry both people and luggage.

There is no reason for anyone to complain just because they take a break once in a while.

Thank you very much for staying with my humble writing until the end. I hope that we live in a world where your elevator does not need to sound the buzzer.

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