I have noted too that I have a 7 year cycle. Work objectives, social circles and wildly altering life events(illness & injury) have altered my future objectives

I have noted too that I have a 7 year cycle. Work objectives, social circles and wildly altering life events(illness & injury) have altered my future objectives every 7 or so. My idealistic outlook has been eroded through experience and my 45yo values are almost 180° from what young & hungry me thought was most important(or, programmed through combo of pop media, peer pressure & raging hormones). The one thing that hasn't changed is my politics: PoliSci's pigeon-holing me into one club or the other never felt right and regardless which candidates win, their un/semi/fully-fulfilled promises reveal their true direct impact upon my life(approaching 0%). Life keeps progressing despite the distracting circus show's results for better & worse. I wish 11yo me had discovered Clarke & Sagan before Gene & George, but as they say: that's life.