NOT ALL PROGRESS IS PROGRESSIVE! 

- Not all progress works to improve us!

There is something in us,
That yearns for progress.

It is the nature of mankind;
To want to grow.

It is engraved right in our DNA ;
To aspire towards the next level.

Society encourages it.
In fact, it expects it...applauds it and rewards it.

With good intentions,
Progress becomes a drug that we are prescribed at birth.

Just as you start to crawl; we want you to run.
Just as you start to learn, we want you to earn.

Year after year,
We set solutions and resolutions for progress.

Before we know it, we are all obesseed and hooked;
Doctor and patient alike.

Like addicts, we pursue it with all we have got;
By all means and at all costs.

This is the world we are born into;
A world that demands and measures progress.

A world that has not only made progress measurable;
But has made progress a measure of existence.

Yet if we are smart, we need to sober up:
Not all progress works to improve us!

NOT ALL PROGRESS IS PROGRESSIVE!

The wise before us spoke;
"There is no progress without sacrifice"

If you see yourself progressing,
Take a moment away from the cheers & ask:
"What am I sacrificing for this progress?"

Are you sacrificing your values, time with family, sleep and rest or long term career?

Is it worthy it and am I okay with it?

For who you are becoming is much more important than what you are having or acquiring.

Always remember;
Be brave and count the cost.

NOT ALL PROGRESS IS PROGRESSIVE!
Not all progress works to improve us!

©GC Diaries