I do not need any more slugs bouncing off my chin right now.
I am thinking more in Druid terms, where a balance is always reached in nature, no matter what humankind might expect to result from their minor toils.
... and painful happenstances can come back around and find joyful news, but that is not a circle; that will make a spiral, in my mind.
I choose to see it as an onward and upward spiral.