Gandhi wasn't simply advocating for leisure—he was identifying a peculiar modern confusion between motion and meaning. We often assume that accomplishing more tasks, earning more money, or advancing faster through our years constitutes progress itself, when really these are merely means, and frequently hollow ones at that. A parent who rushes through dinner to check email, a professional who fills every hour with optimization, a student who treats education as a checklist: each mistakes velocity for vitality. What Gandhi asks us to examine is whether our frenetic pace actually serves what we claim to value, or whether it has become an end in itself, leaving us breathless but not fulfilled.