Pop Goes The Cycle.

As is customary human practice, there is a tendency to fall into what one would call a cycle. A cycle can be defined as repeated behavior. We somehow find comfort in the repetition and continue in this practice until something drastic happens to shift the occurrence of such events. Until this happens, however, the cycle continues to run into infinity.

I am not exempt from this. I have found myself many a time falling into a pattern, that though I find sickening and monotonous, I cannot be pushed to break. I see the patterns, the cycles, and their destruction. I see the mortality rate rising at my expense. I see the harm that faces every corner I turn. I know that it's wrong, and that if I don't stop I will only reap sadness, but for some reason, the cycle over comes me, and I find myself back in a place of distress.

I have likened this cycle to an addiction. You start the habit as a leisurely type thing; something that you only do on rare occasions when celebrating something. A social grace that everyone does to fit in. But then, this habit begins to happen a little more often, and when people aren't always around. Then this habit turns from somewhat of a social grace to something that you always do. Something that you go through your day without. At this point, you begin to want to hide this habit that once was social.

You have now reached the point where you feel the need to not only hide the fact that you have a habit, but then you want to show everyone that you are fine. Everything is fine. All things are...fine. It's at this point when the big bang happens. When everything goes wrong, and the habit or cycle must be broken for survival.

It's at this point where a decision must be made: will you break the cycle and choose the change or will you fall back to the old familiar cycle, something that is so comforting but so wrong.

I think it's time to break the cycle. Be free from what was, and walk into what could be. Break the cycle, break the cycle, break the cycle. There is no need to be comfortable, when there is a chance to be happy. Go be happy, and live free.