Sometimes in life instead of seeing gradual (or let's be honest glacial) progress as negative, one must think of it as reaching a tiny goal; and really no matter how miniscule it is, it's still something. For example, today after Godspell rehearsal I had all of these high hopes and I really think that I was about to have a productive night as a student. But one sentence into my essay for UFDN later, I choose to feel accomplished. It was a pretty good sentence too, let me tell ya: and hey, my name is on there too! Not so bad, eh?