What if what you're saying is true? What if there really are cycles? What if things move from good to bad and back again on and on? If its inevitable that its going to happen that way and you can't do anything to stop it then what ARE you going to do about it.. about how you live through it? The ONLY thing you CAN do is focus on whatever makes you happiest. Is that the bad that's coming while the good is there? I don't think so. Focus on the good right in front of you. What you're saying is your focus is always on the bad that's happening or on its way missing the good you admit happens as part of the cycle. He77, you could even choose to focus on the good that's coming while the bad is there. Makes sense to me.
And, btw, Sleepie... you're doing some pretty classic alcoholic thinking there. I ran into it in my first year of sobriety and thought.. man some people are superstitious.. sorry, that's what I thought.