Running around in circles

Ever play a "game" when you were a kid where you just started to run in a circle? There was no point to it really, it was mostly about wasting time and energy, or something. I don't know. It was fun. These days I feel a bit like I'm stuck in that kind of circle, except the fun has gone out of it. I'm running around in a circle, doing the motions, trying to expend energy to get out of the circular pattern. Yet every time I think I'm making progress because I'm doing work, I ended up back in the same spot, staring at the same thing, and I'm just tired.

I'm going nowhere.