“Alice looked round her in great surprise. ‘Why, I do believe we’ve been under this tree the whole time! Everything’s just as it was!’
‘Of course it is,’ said the Queen, ‘what would you have it?’
‘Well, in our country,’ said Alice, still panting a little, ‘you’d generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.’
‘A slow sort of country!’ said the Queen. ‘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!’”
– Through the Looking Glass by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( aka Lewis Carroll)
The Red Queen Effect applies to all areas of life and ties in well with the below quote by Rudiger Dornbusch –
“In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.”
Replace economics with life, and it still applies.
– Osasu Oviawe