Run, run, as fast as you can

"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
~ The Red Queen from "Through the Looking Glass" by L. Carroll

The Red Queen. Powerful, confident, completely mad, and yet brilliant at the same time. How could her logic possibly make sense? Or better yet, how could such a backwards statement actually make sense in the light of such an intricate topic as evolution?

Run, run, run. Run fast. Better than that-- run faster than you ever imagined you would run. And yes, according to the Red Queen, this is quite possible.

And while such a statement would seem to send a message of hopelessness and defeat, I find faith in it: why not? Why shall I not run as twice as fast as I can? The very mechanisms of life itself serves as a reminder that we can all run just a little faster than we thought possible-- that failure is only a state of mind. Perhaps you aren't actually running in place, rather, purely perceiving it.

I'm going to run a little faster. Thank you, Red Queen.