Life Is A Bunch Of Cycles

Aristotle has an interesting and seemingly abstract way of viewing motion. He proposes that motion is circular in that the beginning of something will become the end, which in turn would signify a new beginning. As we know this cycle would continue on indefinitely. Motion being circular does seem to make sense if you were to look at it in a broad sense of view.
When Aristotle is observing the laws governing motion, it seems he is trying to explain the underlying principles of motion, not specific individual parts of motion. So if we were to examine a form of motion such as life, we would be able to perceive circular motion as the thing governing the motion. If we were to focus inward, we would discover linear aspects that belong to this circular arrangement. Let me clarify this, life is circular as in something is born/given life. It then goes through the span of its life and dies, after death the organism decays, releasing its life giving properties back into nature. Out of the life giving nutrients comes another organism. This is a cyclic happening, when one looks at the underlying law of motion to life it is cyclic or circular. One has to look away from the specific and focus on the bigger picture in order to find out want Aristotle is saying.
If one to look at this from a scientific example, it might become clearer. One of the fundamental laws of science is the conservation of energy. It states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, and that all energy in the universe constantly in being stored and released by a variety of different objects/organisms. The usage of energy might seem to be a linear relationship, like if one is using an ipod and the battery decreases to a zero value. Although it would seem that your ipod’s energy just has gone through a linear form of motion (battery supplying energy to ipod, which in turn drains the battery) the underlying law the motion of the energy shows that if one were to examine the entire situation from outside the context of your ipod playing music, you would find that the energy of the entire system has been conserved and that energy has just been transferred into different forms.
One can ramble on showing various examples of how a philosopher who live long ago stumbled upon a amazing concept. One would just have to analyze occurrence from a broader perspective to understand the governing motion.