One thing about progress, is that you don't notice it when you are close up and around it all the time. When you age with someone, you tend to overlook their aging, but let someone from your past show up and bam! you notice how old THEY are in a heartbeat.

As for others "not" progressing, doesn't bother me much, except I feel for them, compassion that they might still be stuck where they were. An online community, like some have shared, really doesn't give us a full view of where someone is advancing IRL. And if that someone or others keep a low profile, or even as I did, play the cards close to the vest, you won't "see" much progress, or change that might very well have occurred while you thought you were watching.

What each one of us has to keep forefront is our own progress. If we continue to work on ourselves each day, then that should keep us busy.