the endless cycle of starting over

learning to live in the middle - why we crave resets but forget the story already unfolding

A fresh notebook, a new planner, a Monday morning - we’re addicted to beginnings. There’s something intoxicating about a reset, a chance to whisper: this time it will be different. But sometimes it’s just the thrill of novelty, not true change.

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” — Seneca

I buy the notebook, I fill the first ten pages with careful handwriting, I lose momentum, I stop, and then I go buy another one. Over and over, the beginning repeats itself - a circle disguised as progress.