The endless cycles of life
Sometimes I feel like I am stuck in a cycle of events, a loop. An ever-rotating wheel of life that keeps repeating, maybe every day, every other week, over the years, or perhaps even across a lifetime. This repetition seems inevitable. These cycles come with fluctuations, ups and downs, wins and failures that teach us how to live or perhaps even show us the way of living.
Some events leave a deep impact on us and those close to us. Some even ripple outward, affecting complete strangers, a butterfly effect where a small fluctuation in our cycle can lead to much larger events elsewhere.
I believe not all cycles are perfect circles. There are moments in life that will never come again, once-in-a-lifetime phases. Some cycles are oval, with troughs and crests, peaks, trenches, and plateaus of wins and failures, love and hatred, birth and death, both of those close to us and those unknown whose actions still affect us deeply.
Some cyclic actions intersect and then continue along their destined paths, or perhaps take new trajectories. Each new decision becomes a fluctuation. Some paths intersect with known and unknown people, creating endless possibilities of decision, action, and reaction.
Every path that leads to an event, or is led by one, triggers a chain of reactions within the cycle. Each of these can vary based on decisions made, shifting from its original destined path. Every new cycle is a new beginning, a new chance to explore.
I believe that a constant, unchanging cycle of life is dull. Who doesn’t crave change? These changes bring challenges, and it’s those challenges that make life worth living.
Maybe the cycles were never meant to end. They remind us that every return carries something new—a lesson, a wound, or a gift—and that change is never far, even when life feels familiar.
Life circles back, not to trap us, but to give us another chance to see what we once missed.
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