Seven year shift.

I'll be 28 in 25 days.

I originally was going to post about why I left FB,  just in case anyone was wondering. But when I sat down, I wrote and rewrote a few sentences, soon reaching the conclusion that nothing gets to the real truth.

Waste of time this,
and big brother corporate goon that..

However, the thought of coming up on my seven year change really resonates. It's a thought that has stuck with me for the past few months. (right next to "will this bad luck never end?")

21-28 years The cycle that follows from twenty-one to twenty-eight, can more or less be called a process of enlargement and refinement. It is the period that we mentally and emotionally enter into adulthood. We start to build the foundations of our careers and intimate relationships with a driving energy that we hope will gain us entry and respect in the larger world. One of the most marked features is the developing sense of discrimination. The faculties of insight, intuition, judgement and understanding begin to come to the fore. The personality softens and begins to mellow. The sparks of interest that were awakened in the previous cycles begin to be developed along more definite lines. The abilities of the last cycle also flourish. The adult emotional age may begin to emerges if one has successfully grown through the previous levels. This shows as a growing sense of recognising needs of ones partner yet not denying ones own. It is followed by an ability to be something for the partners sake without losing ones own independence or will. One becomes more aware of the issues that colour or influence relationship, and meeting them in cooperation with others. Independence and connection can appear together instead of opposite ends of a spectrum. You move toward becoming caring sexual partners through discovering each others needs and vulnerability. In this period you will begin to confront the issue that you were either born with, or arose through the challenges and pains of your infancy and childhood. These usually show as the way you handle intimate relationships, whether you can really meet in partnership with the opposite sex, and how you respond to the external world, its challenges and opportunities. At this time what is revealed may not be addressed as a personal problem or issues to be healed or re-evaluated. They will be faced more directly later if they are not dealt with now. - Tony Crisp, Every Seven Years You Change

Folks who are close to me have known that this has been somewhat of a difficult year. Challenging. But each challenge also held a message. And sometimes I had to wonder at source of the message.

Ever feel like the person in front of you moving their mouth isn't really the one speaking?  Incidences like that. Synchronicities. Grandiose and prophetic dreams. More synchronicities. And honestly, as someone who doesn't have it all figured out in terms of God, or the higher powers, or cosmic fates...I've got to be honest. It's a little freaky-deaky.

And the overall themes being hammered home?

Be patient. Be compassionate. Don't fight from a place of anger, but one of love. Be gracious. You are doing the right thing with your children. Be strong. Stay focused.

Interesting things to think about.

I'll let you all draw your own conclusions about what leaving facebook means in this context.

goodnight :)