What’s the deal with cycles?

Hilfamous
2 min readOct 12, 2023

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What’s the deal with cycles? Am I right? I mean, everything seems to be stuck in this endless loop.
Washing machines have cycles; they spin, rinse, and repeat like they’re auditioning for a dance-off. Dishwashers have cycles too, as if they’re caught in some sudsy soap opera plotline. And let’s not forget menstruation—the monthly visit from Aunt Flow, who’s always punctual like a strict librarian.

It’s like Einstein dropped some knowledge bombs when he said, “doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result is pure insanity. “ But then, Earth just keeps twirling on its axis like it’s auditioning for a never-ending dance competition, making us feel like every day is Groundhog Day all over again. We spin, we rinse, we repeat, and we’re like, “Yep, definitely a brand new day!”

And here we are, zooming through space faster than a caffeine-fueled cheetah at 29.78 km/s, only to find ourselves back in the same cosmic neighborhood we were in last year. And what do we do? We throw a party, bake a cake, and sing “Happy Birthday” to Earth! “Congrats on surviving another lap around the sun, buddy!”

Maybe when Einstein was dropping these pearls of wisdom, he wasn’t standing on Earth at all. Maybe he was out there in the cosmos, using astral projection to host a celestial game show or doing something completely wacky while the rest of us are stuck in the rinse-and-repeat cycle of life.

But hey, if only we could throw money at Earth’s rotation and ask it to change its routine, right? “Earth, darling, could you consider a new spin on things? Maybe a waltz instead of that same old two-step?”
Unfortunately, our planet is a bit of a stubborn dancer, and it’s not taking requests of a partner.
So, here we are, riding the cosmic rollercoaster of existential wonder. It’s like we’re all passengers on a never-ending amusement park ride, and the only way to enjoy it is to sit back, buckle up, and appreciate the wild, unchangeable cycles of life.

Oh, this is my way of saying, Greetings, Fam!

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