This morning, I gave a teen a ride to shul. I joked that our zman cherusenu seems over and it's time to return to being an eved. An eved Hashem, of course.
He disagreed. His proof: each yomtov season is not a circular cycle. It's a spiral. So we get to hold onto cherus even as we're counting toward matan toratenu.
May you keep your cycles spiraling upward to many long & healthy years. You're an inspriration. - Briut