Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Cycles of life ...

I have had reason the last day or so to examine the cycles of life that we all experience. Yes i know... we are born, we grow, we get old and we pass on. Blah Blah Blah.
I am talking about the emotional and ever changing side of life. It really is overwhelming to think of the many phases we all experience. The cycles are different for all of us but the feelings though at different times and experiences are identical. Our perception of these is the only difference. I mean really at some time we all experience every single emotion known to man... and many in between and unknown. Every thing from tranquility to the darkest evil touch us all. This thought leads me to common cycles of human behavior and emotion. So every day we have a cycle made up of tiny cycles...lets refer to this cycle an the minute...Come on KEEP UP....Every minute of the day we are thinking ,feeling , forgetting, listening ,processing and remembering. That one minute cycle involves every sense we have and many we do not yet understand. Wow, that is just the tip of the one minute ice burg. No wonder we are so emotional at times! Multiply that by 60 and we have another tiny cycle... we will call this cycle the Hour...i know...tough concept! So within the hour we have 60 smaller cycles all crammed into one. What happens to all of that data we absorb.. who really knows for sure.. we only know that in any given cycle something profound is likely to happen... Profound???...yes profound. Noticeable enough to be stored as an active memory must make it in some tiny way profound. After all we do not choose the events we remember on an active level of thought. Now i know you get the concept of time and can read a calender well enough to get where this is going. On average most modern humans will experience more than 75 year long cycles...all crammed with tiny overwhelming cycles.

Here is the strange part... every event , belief, lifestyle and choice seems to have an independent cycle that has a striking average across society. The average go nowhere date...2 hours or less. The average infatuation with a stranger 6 to 12 hours... also known as the on night stand. The average lie can last about 4 to 6 mts. also known as the other shoe dropping. I like to call that one the REALLY phase... Totally awesome but dreadfully revealing phase.Average church membership... 5 years. Monogamy in a relationship...7 years if you are lucky. Marriage 6 mts in America. Sexual desire..1to 3 yrs broken into 2 to 3 week cycles. Arguments...every 2 to 4 weeks. Average marriage 30 years ago...Life. New car...6 mts..replaced within two years. Television usually every 3 to 5 years. Sneakers..up to 10 years. Tuxedo Life. Roof  7 years. Garden life. Wallet 3 years. Sun glasses 1 month. False teeth ...life. Wow we sure do have some crazy cycles. Do we really have such distorted values??? Within each of these cycles there are different cycles ending and beginning. If we could separate out desires from the natural cycles and input good core values we would all be apt to put more value on the human parts of our cycles.

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