Does Your Staircase Take You Up Or Down?

I was watching The Next Iron Chef on TV tonight which happened to be the finale.  Chef Mehta ended up losing but what he said at the end was very thought provoking.  His metaphor about life was fantastic!  Check this out, it blew my mind…he said: “It’s a little disappointing (losing) but…life is like a staircase — you go up, you go down..but you must never think that the staircase only takes you down.  You must always think that a staircase only takes you up.”