Could stay here for a lifetime...

He is aware that true beginnings don't exist. The world is made of flowing energy, which is neither created or destroyed. Everything he is was here before him. Everything he was will remain. His existence touches both his past and his future at one point - infinity. Lifelines aren't lines at all. They are more like circles. It's safe to start anywhere and the story will curve its way back to the starting point. Eventually. In other words, it doesn't matter where he begins. It doesn't change the end.

... that is because the power of the universe always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. The sky ... and I have heard the earth is curved as well, and so are all the stars. The wind in its greatest power whirls, birds make their nests looped, for theirs is the same line of thought as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in an eclipse. The moon does the same and both are oval. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. And so from birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having made one great slow turn on a carousel to become our future, and if we have learned anything worth learning, the carousel will bring us to the one place we most need to be.