Have you heard of the term"The Circle of Life"? What does it mean?

I believe that there is a difference between coming/going full circle, and the circle of life.

The circle of life has to do with the cyclicle nature of life; birth, life, reproduction, death. Where I am now is where my father was when he had me... that's the circle of life.

Things coming or going full circle is more of a wheel within a wheel, so to speak. The cycle of an event, or a series of them, when the circle of life has to do with the whole.

Look at it like this. Something going full circle is like playing with a boomerang. You put it out there and it comes back to you.... your payback. While you are ouut playing with your boomerang there is still a world that is making its revolutions. A cycle within a cycle.

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Have you heard of the term"The Circle of Life"? What does it mean?

Have you ever felt you have come Full Circle in life and how did you feel about it? I had felt I had come full circle once about two years ago and it left me feeling that I cheated death, that my life had been complete. I had talked to a couple of people about it and they thought I still had...

Full Circle in that you feel you've done all you can do and that you are just exisiting with no real purpose? I'm sure many have felt that way and many of have never thought of it.

I think Circle of life consists of many circles. The one big obvious you live do stuff then you die.

In between are smaller circles as people and things come and go in life in such a way that they go with some type of closure.

Cheating death I don't think is possible because you don't have a choice in the matter. You either live or you die in that instant and it's not a conscience choice you can make.

Although suicide is an attempt at making that decision, sometimes it works, sometimes it does not.

Do you have more to accomplish? Have not reached your purpose? Perhaps. Find your passion and gravitate towards it. You'll then find your answers.

I agree with Eazy, The circle of life is evolutionary and the idea of coming full circle is finishing a start and often having a new start come from a part of the prior cycle.

I started out unable to care for myself in any way and now that I have come to be able to care for myself in every way I also care for the person who took care of me. I cared for my mother as she died of cancer 8 years ago and now I am caring for my 74 year old father and have actually moved so that he could live with my husband, kids, and I so it feels totally full circle. I want to add also that I had a baby at 38 and at 14 months (on the 10th) she is the light of my dads life, and not that I knew that would happen at all when I decided to start a new family, but it is a joy to have that be one of the cycles in my life and a last gift from me in his life.

I will be 40 in November and am just realizing that the true meaning in life (for me) comes from my family both nuclear and extended (my husband's family). My family was the most important thing to me as a child and then I forgot for a very long time and now I realize my family is the most important thing to me again. There was a 30 year learning curve for that lesson cycle (thankfully they are patient).

You're born, you eat, you reproduce, you die.

Your body is then eaten by something else, which ultimately dies.

And its body is then eaten by something else, which ultimately dies.

etc.

The idea is that death is part of life's cycle of renewing.

Ultimately, "eat or be eaten" is wrong: "Eat AND be eaten" is closer to the truth.

In any case, assuming you have reproduced, evolutionarily, it doesn't matter if you die ... your children live on and (more to the point) so do your genes. Even if you fail to achieve your ultimate goal, your children potentially can. This concept of living on even when your body dies and becomes food for something else is a fundamental concept behind lots of literature and coming-of-age stories.

No Elton John required.

The circle of life is when you know have learned about what happens in life and then you children have finally learnt what you have already know and they understand what you are saying and they are saying it too. That is the circle of life.

I believe it has to do with our place in life. Life starts with the smallest living thing and does up from there. We are somewhere in the middle and the circle keeps going until it gets back to that smallest living thing and then it starts all over again.

Usually the circle of life means from birth to death - kind of like the ashes to ashes and dust to dust line that is given at funerals.

"From dust we were and to dust we shall return"