Interestingly, our life is made of many cycles.
Schumann resonance of the Earth is 7.83Hz and harmonics.
Our heart beats 100 times per minute (1.4Hz).
We breathe 6 times per min.
We pee and drink 10 times per day.
School classes are 45 min with 15 min break.
The workday starts 8a, lunch break 11a-noon, work ends 5p.
We eat 4 times per day. Less in poor countries.
We shower and brush teeth twice a day
We sleep and poop once a day.
We shop for food about twice a week (this varies much).
We go to work for 5 days per 7-day week.
Some people go to church one day on the weekend.
Many go to nature on the weekend.
Salary typically comes twice a month
We pay for housing, electricity, gas, water, garbage disposal and health insurance monthly.
We have a haircut once a month.
Teeth cleaning service is twice a year.
Some take a vacation once a year.
Taxes are paid once a year.
Our seasons rotate throughout the year.
The school has a yearly cycle with breaks.
Holidays repeat every year. Holidays vary by religion and by country. Typically religious holidays follow the moon calendar and secular ones follow sun calendar.
Pregnancy lasts 9 months. People go to school until about 18 years. Years of schooling and life are longer in rich countries. Life in rich countries is about 85 years and in poor countries, it is about 60 years. The main reasons for death are diseases caused by poor ecology and limited abilities of medicine. With rare exceptions, people would like to stay healthy, work and be useful much longer.
These multiple cycles in life make it a rich and diverse experience. We are forced to exercise our right for free will almost every minute. Staying alive is a full-time job. One has to skillfully plan food and other supplies. Our food is not easily available and cannot be stored for long, so people are constantly busy working for money, buying food, cooking it, eating and preserving what can be preserved. Our home errands are also taking much time and effort. Especially busy are parents with children. Children need a special feeding and sleeping schedule, and special food. Their clothing is to be cleaned more often and as they grow fast, it is to be replaced. Much money, time and energy is needed to bring up kids. Moreover, kids cannot stay and study by themselves; they need almost constant attention, tutoring, entertainment, and more. If left alone, they harm themselves, each other and destroy the home belongings. So parents also function as guards of order. Jobs vary much. Some deal with production, some with services, many are aimed at maintaining order, some are educational, engineering and scientific. Much of human effort would make no sense to you.
In civilized countries advertising is extremely deceptive and inefficient. Our ways of organizing society are inefficient and much effort is spent by part of the society fighting each other or working against each other. Crime is one of the most damaging realities. Much of our activity is aimed at crime prevention. If people were so conscientious not to take belongings of others, our production efficiency would increase much.
War and weapons take an even bigger toll on our economy. Much of global research, development and production efforts are spent on making weapons and guarding weapons and weapon technologies. It is a secret how much of our economy works towards making and guarding weapons, but it easily can be over 50%. Therefore a large number of workers are working to develop, make or guard weapons. Many other workers are servicing the ones who work on weapons. Obviously, this way of life is very inefficient.
After World War II, a couple of countries that were defeated in the war - Japan and Germany were prohibited from having weapons and an army. As a result, their economies bloomed! Somehow this lesson is not learned by the human world.
Our world is ruled by criminals who promote the ideas of war and weapons. Their interests are opposed to the interests of many people, but our political system prevents common sense.