life-cycle

Is life merely a cycle, or is it something that we can breakthrough it. If it's a cycle, is it something predetermined? But believing it to be predetermined, would make us feel like to surrender - it makes us feel powerless, it makes us feel useless to be striving so hard everyday to become better, and it makes everything seems worthless.

So, what is this cycle about? It started when we are born, when we "join" in the world, and the only option to "leave" the cycle, is after our death. There's no guideline about it.

Life is so much simpler in olden days, less worry, less comparison, less knowledge, less stress. And with the world getting "bigger" now, not that it physically get bigger, just that with the accessibilities that we have now, we literally connected with the whole wide world, we get too much information whether we need to them or not. 

Is that the reason to make us lost focus on what we really need to do with our own life? We are all so lost in others' lives, that we spend more time tracking on others, rather than our own. We try following what others are doing, thinking it would make our lives different, too. 

If life is a cycle, would all cycles be the same, or is it an individual cycle after all? And is it the same cycle that we need to complete by ourselves? It's irony, when everyone seems to be "learning" from everyone, which now seems to make each individual cycle to  become one big cycle.

It seems to be a big question. Let's ponder for a moment.