Missing Progress's Stop

Morning Thoughts #173

If there’s anything to know about the medical field, it is this: Viruses are progressive, and vaccines are reactionary. Growth, in general, is progressive. In youth, excess growth is good and normal. Once matured, however, new and rapid growth showing up somewhere on your body is cause for concern.

Is it better to progress or to conserve? To keep marching forward or make a strategic retreat? There’s no absolute answer, and to believe there is means one of two things: either you’ve never sufficiently opened yourself up to growth at all, or you’ve never acquired the wisdom to know when you reached your ideal height. Exponential growth requires impossible balance. Play that game long enough, and you’ll topple yourself over with self-conceit.

I like to think of progress like a train. Know where your stop is and depart there. Riding that train to the end of the line, just for the sake of it, gets you no closer to home if you live somewhere along the middle of the route, as I suggest we all do.