Cycles

 “Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.” - Chuck Palahniuk. It is strange to think of death and destruction as something that is beneficial. That pain could bring with it strength and freedom. That for someone to grow they first must be broken in some way. This reminds me of military training as well as how muscles are built. In order for the military to strengthen you, they berate you when you go through cadet training. They say this is to break you down so that they can rebuild you to make you stronger. In order for muscles to grow they must be torn, stretching and elongating until they tear apart. The muscles heal and grow larger than they previously were as a way of ensuring that they can’t be torn again. It’s almost like you are subconsciously evolving. Unknowingly changing yourself to combat the destruction of your environment. It is very cyclical. Pain. Growth. Pain. Growth. For some odd reason this made me think of rubber bands. I guess I made the connection between destruction and resurrection with that of the elongation and contraction of rubber. The ebb and flow back and fourth nature of rubber bands is something that I visualize to be cyclical.