It seems to me that I can split my life up into cycles - phases and events that repeat themselves.

Well you can say that everyday is a cycle. We do almost the same things each day like eat and sleep but that’s not what I mean. It’s not just mere actions or routines that makes it a cycle. It’s more like the events and circumstances which unfolds and resulting in the state I’m in.

The cycles can be categorised according to a hierachy of their time span. i.e. how often they occur. And can be nested with the smaller within the larger.

The smallest ones occur in a few weeks, possibly easier to identify as the change from the ups and downs are more obvious.

Large cycles would be in months, kind of like the exam stress that gets to most students every 6 months. Not that I get exam stress but just to illustrate.

Then the largest actually occurs over about 6 to 7 years. In a way the circumstances, events and players do seem awfully familar to what they were years ago.

Cycles are vicious, like a simple harmonic motion, always returning to the point of origin to start the next phase all over again, with the same results, never progressing forward.

When will my breakthrough come?