If life feels like it’s going in circles… maybe that’s exactly how it’s meant to be.

We often think of life as a straight line — always moving forward, always adding more. But what if it’s not? A simple math concept, the number line, can teach us something profound about how growth, success, and even setbacks truly work.

What if, instead of a line, life is a circle — looping, expanding, and always bringing us back to what matters most?

In school, we’re taught that numbers live on a line — a neat, endless stretch from left to right. Zero sits somewhere in the middle, and the numbers march outward toward infinity.

But what if that line isn’t really a line at all?

What if, when you look at it from a different angle, it bends — slowly, gracefully — into a circle?

Because life, like math, isn’t always linear.

We move forward, we circle back. We grow, we pause, we begin again. Sometimes, it feels like we’re going in loops — but maybe those loops are what shape us.

In this “life math,” higher numbers don’t always mean we’re doing better. Adding more — achievements, possessions, status — doesn’t guarantee we’re ahead. In fact, if the number line truly expands to infinity, then the circle of life is infinitely more expansive.

We can jump from 0 to 6 to 10,000 and back to 2 — and still be exactly where we’re meant to be.

Because in the circle, there’s no “ahead” or “behind.” There’s only movement.

And here’s the beautiful part — there isn’t just one circle.

There are countless ones spinning alongside ours — people, experiences, moments — all intersecting at just the right time.

So next time you think you’ve gone “backward” in life, maybe you haven’t. Maybe you’ve just rounded the curve and come back to a point that’s asking you to see things differently- to evolve and grow!

Maybe the number line was never meant to be straight.

Maybe it was always meant to be a circle. Turns out LIFE is not linear!

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