Chinese New Year

You will encounter the animal of your birth sign every 12 years, and it's supposed to mark something. The first time I encountered it, I was 11. Now that I think about it, it was a challenge to me. The lunar year of my birth sign were usually fairly uneventful affairs in themselves, but they portended change. So the first time I completed a cycle, I was about to be introduced to teenage angst. The second time I completed a cycle, I was about to be introduced to the real working life. Looking back, maybe those were years when I had the opportunity to ready myself for what lay ahead of me.

Who knows what lies ahead of me next?