Time is continuous. But we are conditioned to believe time is a circular motion of events, Monday to Monday, Jan to Jan. We focus so much on the repetition of weeks, years, events and seasons that we wait and celebrate at the start of each and we get so wasted at the end of each. This continuous loop keeps us going nowhere but keeping in that loop week in week out, year in year out.
Perhaps, if we looked at weekends as just rest days amidst work days and not a beginning of something new. With no repetition of years (Jan to Jan) but just a continuation of life, we would focus well, develop and have a better life. Time is all, but an illusion.

The loop is to create an illusion that you have so many chances to start over whenever you mess up. But once you are so caught up in it, you become irresponsible, you take things for granted, the repeated cycles of months become accumulated years that you cant get back and before you know it, failure shocks you like you had no chance to see it coming.