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There is no point per se, there is trajectory.
Pic Related.
Our future is defined by our past, and yet is not identical to our past. Instead it is the exponential continuation of our heritage and people.
Like the graph, from the points preceding the y-intercept (think of this as the present), we have yet to transcend a unit along its axis, and yet onwards to the future (x-axis positive) we have only to exponentially rise.
This mentality is best summed in the timeless Latin phrase:
Ad astrum - to the stars