Oh I like how you think there. Yes, that's definitely one of a
   few ideas I had for it - the quick fading of idealism into
   realism and ALL the work required but if you keep at it long
   enough, right at the VERY END if you don't give up, you get a
   final burst of idealism just at the end... ...only to start all
   over again smile emoticon == Yes grin emoticon The process of
   process - I like that smile emoticon I have other thoughts for
   it as well: if you notice he's blue both at the end and
   beginning: - the snake eating its tail situation -
   end=beginning, simultaneous while also distinct. I was thinking
   it could also be the process of life. Start off enthusiastic,
   start to get tainted as the world comes at you, struggle through
   and then towards the end, you regain the childhood back. Same
   idea as the idealism come to think of it, just laid over the
   life process. Still my favorite is kind of a quantum thing going
   on. The start and the goal are one and the same. Not so much a
   loop in that case: not really the snake eating its tail... but
   that the beginning and end happen simultaneously as a single
   event. all the middle stuff is hidden from view. I guess kind of
   a Heidegger situation there. == Yes - I agree! In a similar/same
   way, I don't believe there are really "circle" as time marches
   forward as it does, so something that appears to be looping is
   really spiraling forward through time, and you carry with you
   everything you learned on each turn, so that each circle is
   never exactly the same but more than it already is. At the very
   _worst_, the circle could be like a coilsping. But at it's best,
   it spirals outwards to larger and larger and greater amounts.
   "never step in the same river twice" kind of thing.... "can
   never go home again" - that sort of thing. ['cause once you
   leave home, you've grown bigger than the home can contain...
   metaphorical home of course - the home = past you with the
   current you being a larger you than the past you was, etc. ==