Does history have to repeat itself?

It’s interesting to look at how things tend to have a consistent life cycle. Although they may go dormant at times, chances are if you wait long enough they will cycle around again. It happens in fashion all time much to my dismay sometimes. But what about when you don’t want history to repeat itself but yet it does.

Is it just destiny or do we subconsciously set ourselves up to rinse and repeat? Even when you are determined to not repeat past mistakes and yet it happens is that your fault or is it just meant to be? I have been thinking a lot about this topic lately as I have been finding myself allowing history to repeat itself even when it’s not the path I want to take.

But I didn’t realize this until just recently and yet looking back it is so clear that I was headed down the same path. What was I thinking? Why did it take so long to figure out when it’s the second time around making this mistake? Shouldn’t I have noticed the signals? I am afraid my behaviors and patterns are so ingrained that I will continue to do this over and over.

How do you pay close attention to what you are doing to make sure you aren’t making those same mistakes without getting paranoid and not trusting yourself and looking for problems around every corner? But I’m not sure if I can change course at this stage in the game but not sure if I want to start over either. Ahhhhh…what to do?

I am not complaining I am just trying to reflect and figure things out. I don’t want to keep making the same mistakes and I want the life I have envisioned for myself with compromising that too much (I know there is always compromise at some levels). How can you break the cycle of doubt? 

 

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