Why are you a "Been there, done that" or "grass is always greener" kinda person?

If your instinct on being offered the same thing again is “been there, done that, got the T-shirt, let’s try something new,” you are describing abstract circuitry, and it is worth understanding what it is doing rather than treating it as restlessness.

The sensing circuit

The abstract or sensing circuit is a sub-circuit of the collective circuitry. It runs on beginnings, middles and ends.

It is about full immersion in an experience. The imagination to daydream something new. Actually having the experiences, many different ones. Witnessing what happened. Succeeding where others fail, and failing where others succeed. And then, after completion, the re-imagining: telling the story.

Cycles rather than loops

This circuit symbolizes the eternal return, cyclicality, something constantly recreating itself: nature’s endless creation and destruction, life and death.

I prefer to think of it as a spiral rather than a circle or a closed loop, because it is not repeating. It is evolving. Anyone with strong abstract circuitry, ask yourself honestly whether you enjoy doing the same thing over and over and over. The idea alone gives most of us shivers.

We like to cycle. We like to evolve. We like new experience. New positions, new places, new people, rather than the same old same old. It has the flavor of a third line about it, and it is very different from how logic operates.

No splenic alarm

There is no splenic center in this circuit to alert you to danger, and that matters.

Everything here is transitory. The mind is transitory. Feelings are transitory. Experiences are transitory. Organisms are transitory. Stories, fables and movies are transitory. That is the human experiential way.

This stream also holds the most deeply emotional mind in the bodygraph, and looking back into the past is a key part of how the sensing circuit works. Life here is an endless progression: cycle after cycle, discovery after discovery.

Why the grass stays greener

Here is the part that catches people.

You can never expect and get exactly what you expect. And even when you do get exactly what you expected, there is still the crash afterwards. I finished an Ironman triathlon when I was young, and the down that followed the finish line was its own event.

Holding expectations opens you to frustration and disappointment, and the wishing is itself an abstract habit. Whatever the accomplishment, whatever you acquire, the down still arrives, and then it is on to the next thing. That is not a character flaw. It is the circuit doing what it does, and it is why the grass is always greener on the other side for this design.

What to do with it

Let the cycles run. This applies especially to children, whose phases are distinct enough that some psychologists have described the passage between them as a series of rebirths, and who learn through their own senses rather than through an adult’s eyes.

Let growth take the time it takes. You cannot force a rose to bloom, or an acorn into an oak.