Every 5 years

Have you ever noticed, that in part or parts of your life, there is the 5 year threshold? You move abroad....stay for 5 years....move......you are in a job for 5 years....leave....etc etc. What is it about 5 years that seems to be after which, change or a life marking decision needs to be made? Maybe it is that correct amount of time after which you have gone through the beginning, middle and the end of a chapter in your life, marking a time to move on. Or.....is it a spiritual awareness of sorts, whereby your inner self and/or soul is telling you that it is time to move on in your life rather than to stagnate?

Of course, the "5 year rule" is not always true in every case and also, at times it is ignored, be it for good or bad reasons. I think back to a professional role that I performed for a company for almost ten years. When I reflect.....I should have left or sought out a change after having done 5 years in that role, and the consequences of making that decision I still feel today. However, the fact that I stayed in that role, put me in contact with a person in my life that eventually played an instrumental role in my coming to Switzerland when I did. The question is, would fate have determined that I came to Switzerland in any case......or by not moving on after 5 years and not having listened to my inner self, did I ignore my true destiny and change my life path? An answer to these questions will never be known, and nor should they be. I suppose in the end, what is true is that life is what you make it yourself, that the future is not set in stone, that you make your own destiny.