The 4 year itch. That's a thing, right? I mean, you google "4 year itch" and mostly you come across folks interested in pop-psychology who talk about how they're interested in psychology who don't really quote anything but say "studies show" divorces are common around year-4 of marriage. So...no, it's not a thing.
Though I have to say I'm diggin' the 4 year cycles. Highschool was 4 years, undergrad was 4 years. That's really all I could handle of either one, but it definitely felt like just enough time to ripen within each stage. I'm coming up on 4 years at this job of mine tip-typing away at Northwestern and I'm ready for a good old fashioned phase-changer.
I wonder if the 4 year thing has any merit to it. If people have a tendency to want to reinvent themselves or experience a life-changing event every 4 years. It's enough time to get used to something, enough time to really dig in to a field of study, a relationship, a mindset...Presidential terms are set to 4 years. There's some 4-year cycle talk on The Internet regarding the Stock Market (...not that I'd even consider getting into figuring out what that even means).
Though, I would say that as a member of the Greek-thought-evolved modern tribe, this cyclical time stuff can only coexist with the idea of a linear timeline. So as I imagine my life, the cycles are more cyclonic, that of a tornado going round and round but always somewhere!
I'd like to go somewhere.
...
BY DESTROYING EVERYTHING IN MY PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATH.
If you were expecting to read something insightful, and maybe you'd be interested in the writings of Nobel Prize winners on time, I recommend landing here:
www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/articles/cullhed/
