"Progress" without an ultimate destination is illogical.
There must be a *fixed* and *ultimate* destination to measure against and strive for.
Then you can know if you're progressing, or not.
In America, we were sold on the idea that we make progress based on the stuff we have, or if our bank account grows.
But the stuff wasn't enough.
The more stuff, the more headaches and attention that needs to be placed on it.
And once we possess stuff, it immediately starts to lose value, and we need to "progress" to get even better stuff.
There's nothing wrong with the stuff, per se. There's nothing inherently wrong with having a little of it, or a lot of it.
But "progress" to more stuff is not progress at all.
We come into this life with nothing, and leave with nothing.
So our ultimate purpose in this life is another kind of progress.
Value is never lost with each step forward. There's only gain.
And this type of progress has a fixed and ultimate destination:
