The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whether they are led is of secondary importance.
Glory is largely a theatrical concept.
There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.