One step forward...

It's quite a depressing feeling, to think that you have taken one step forward and after a while, realise that you have taken two steps back as well. Not only are you not at the original point, but you are now at a place of negative value. If that's the case, how are you going to move forward? Another step forward means that you are at the original starting point but moving two steps backwards again brings you to... a place of even more negative value. So trying to move forward means that you merely make your standing more and more negative. So what's the point?