Everybody is waiting for something

Amelia: I've been waiting for a phone call

Amelia: for seven years.         

Amelia: I know it's coming, Viktor.

Amelia: That's why I can't break it off. That's why I live out of hotels and have
my little suitcase packed, ready to go, 

Amelia: just in case

he wants to meet me for the weekend.                   

Amelia: Yeah.                   

Amelia: I've been waiting my whole life.             

- Just don't know what the hell for.

- [pager vibrates]                

Amelia: I'm so sorry.               

Viktor: I live here.                   

Amelia: What?

Viktor: I live here, in terminal.                 

Gate 67.                  

Amelia: You live at the airport?

Viktor: Yes. Day and night.            

Viktor: This home, like you.

Viktor: They tell me to wait. So I wait.                   

Amelia: All frequent fliers feel the same way you do, Viktor. 

Amelia: Everybody's waiting. Everybody.

This was a dialog from the movie The Terminal. A very matter fact statement, but it has a very deep meaning. 

There is a similarity  between our lives and what was happening to Viktor Navorski in the movie. We all have an end goal in our life. We may not know it yet, but trust me at some point of time we all have that aha moment and say to ourselves "This is it. This is what I want. Nothing else matters".

Just like Viktor went to the customs official and tried to go the NY city, we work towards our goal. While working towards the goal, we make friends, help them out and sometimes even be the robin hood. But beneath all this surface water there is a deep under current, our goal in life. This explains why we do the things we do and why we move ahead in the direction we do. This is what makes a person tick. If we can get an understanding of this deep under current, we can say with confidence the type of person he is.

But, till the end goal is achieved everyone has to wait or as Amelia says "everybody's waiting. Everybody".