Between the two, I prefer cyclical time. I tend to see things as
seasonal. Not just earth seasons but life seasons.
Reverberations through time within one's own personal timeline.
Like themes. Or the way we recall memories. When you're drunk,
you remember things you did when you're drunk. You have drunk
memories.
When you're angry with someone, all the memories of the
angry-with-that-someone come up yet they're often not there when
you're not angry with that someone.
In the process, we seem to follow scripts based upon earlier
formed patterns.
I think the block view of time; where Time is a cake, is a
necessary-for-some-purposes but a VERY limiting metaphor that
misses a lot of connections across time that are neither
cyclical nor linear. Yes, same yet also entirely unique. That
is what's fascinating about time. I've known people (and
likely done it myself) that like to recreate events in a
cycle-fashion. I think it brings comfort to an uncertain
universe.
