I have a need for rotation on a fairly regular basis. I have to move around, from one slot to another and maybe back again. I seem to have done this throughout my adult life in a series of complicated cycles.

Sometimes I change the emphasis every few weeks. More major moves I’ve tended to make in year to eighteen month tracks - a certain kind of activity followed by a need for change, perhaps integrating the previous track into the new one in some essential way. I think this is perfectly healthy. I think it is consistent with growth and with a requirement to remain stimulated.

In a more superficial way it fulfils the need and desire for newness. Perhaps it might be criticised as fickle or as indicative of commitment failure. I don’t think that holds in my case. Amid the changes I still have an absolute true-north alongside an almost sacred commitment to it. I have a fundament in a values system that transcends all the moving around. Me? Superficial, fickle..... naaah!