the.com/full circle
Where you ended up looking suspiciously like where you swore you'd never return.
means To arrive back at a starting point, situation, or belief after a long course of change — ending up where you began, but having gone all the way around to get there.
from A straightforward image before it was ever a phrase: a 'circle' traces back to Latin 'circulus,' a small ring, and 'full' simply marks the circle as complete — no gap left to close. The phrase took hold as a figure of speech for journeys, arguments, or fortunes that loop all the way around and meet themselves again, the way a story or a life sometimes does.
- origin
- literal geometry, now exclusively emotional geometry
- secret meaning
- growth is optional, irony is not
- overused in
- graduation speeches and breakup texts
- true shape
- usually a spiral, nobody checks