Circle and Cycle - Life... Love... and 'What goes round, comes round'. It's time to Learn English

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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They say that many things go round in circles.
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The planets in our solar system go round the sun.
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We all take that journey together.
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You might even say that life is a cycle,
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or at least a type of circle.
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The words circle and cycle have similar connotations
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in that they refer to one thing going round another.
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In fact, both words originate from Latin
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around object or a series of repeating events
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or the circle and the cycle.
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A wheel is circular and goes round in a cycle.
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As I mentioned earlier, life is a type of cycle.
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Although we only get to take that particular ride once.
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Sometimes we might find ourselves going full circle.
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A point in your life is revisited again later.
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You go from one situation to another,
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only to return to the first point again.
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Mistakes may be repeated.
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You might return to a job you did in the past.
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A person you've lost contact with comes back into your life.
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You have gone full circle in your life.
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The breeding routine of animals
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is often referred to as the life cycle.
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So as you can see, the circle and the cycle of all
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our existences can be simplified just by referring to how they occur.
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Both the good things and the bad things can come back at some point.
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What goes around comes around.
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That, as they say, is how things are.
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Eventually, we all end up back where we started.
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