Frightening

http://www.infrastructurist.com/2010/04/29/how-much-time-do-americans-spend-on-elevators-a-ton/

Read that article. Look at the graph. Those numbers aren't days per year or hours per month. That is Years. Across a lifetime.
NYC is at 22.5! Twenty two and a half years! that's older than I am right now. Over a quarter of the average person's life.
Granted, NYC is pretty much a city of elevators,, but if it were possible for the study to be expanded to beyond simply standing and waiting to get on or off an elevator, the number's would be comparative across the country.
A quarter of your life, to simply get in or off an elevator. A quarter of your life, simply waiting to get somewhere.
That's just elevator time.
How many hours of your day, years of your life is wasted on simply waiting for something to happen? For a day to come? Anticipating an event to take place? Fantasizing all of the different little events that may or may not transpire at that moment.
And finally, as that moment comes, you've both built it up so much that it lets you down, and then you're also spending your time anticipating a still further moment.

Stop waiting, stop wasting time.
If you want something to happen, odds are it's all on you, so go out there and do it.
If you can't control the situations of it, then stop worrying about it, it will come in due time whether you want it to or not.
And if you're going to go down, go down with guns blazing.