A circle

You always hear, history repeats itself. So then our very existence is a bunch of circles. I started to wonder what kind of scale this worked on. You study it in history and its always “over hundreds of years.” But what on a smaller scale.  If we were all really honest we would want to know things in the perspective of our lifetime. Does history repeat itself in our lifetime? I consulted my good friend joey on this one. He had a theory that as we progress in life we are constantly trying to figure things out and that life in the beginning is trial and error. We try and try over and over again circularly until something fits. In which we tangent, (joey is a math guy), off in the direction that something fits. I argued that isnt that the definition of stupidity, to try something over and over again and expecting different results. He rebutted that its not exactly the same thing because the situation is different each time. Therefore if we are making the same paths but in different directions around a central goal- life is a sphere until we get it right