Eureka! Wait... was that an epiphany?

[outlawstar69]

You know those moments, when you're brain is trying to wrap itself around a concept so you can solve a problem, and it seems that you're almost at that state of information overload? No matter how hard you try to think about it, you just don't get it. Then, the clouds part, a chorus of angels sings, and all of a sudden, you get it. The pieces fit, everything makes sense, and you sit there wondering why you didn't get it before. The process of finding the answer has become an experience in itself... an epiphany. Now, I'm not talking about normal everyday things like, "Oh! I understand that sin is the negative derivative of cos!" (or something like that.) Although it's good that you got that, I'm talking about real epiphanies, ones that changes the way you look at something in life, something that alters, well, you. Not everyone has these, of course... but I'd like to ask my fellow boardmembers (in particular the older ones, seeing as we're more likely to have experienced one) if they have ever experienced one, and ask them to share it.

I myself have only had one or two, but they did change the way I looked at life. For me... I was maybe in 8th or 9th grade, and I don't remember what I was doing at the time. I think I was in school, listening to some girls talk about life in general, one of those honest soul baring discussions... and it hit me. Now don't laugh, but at that moment, listening to them talk about their dreams, goals and feelings, I got that sensation of things falling into place, and it hit me that [I]they were people just like me[/I]. Don't laugh, let me explain: before then, I knew they were human, but you know how kids think. I always thought there was underlying fundamental difference that I could never get my mind around... but at that moment, when I heard some of them expressing the same exact feelings and emotions that I had, I don't know. It just hit me then, a little glimpse as to how some people can marry for life, and that some of the luckiest people in the world are those that have found their "soul mate" and stay together for decades, happy. I can't exactly describe it... except for maybe, "Eureka!", lol. Maybe some people get this before I do, but at that moment I really started looking forward to the idea of courtship.

[::Ex-Soldier::]

I'll usually get that in algebra class or something :tasty:

I don't really know, sometimes I have a really late reaction to stuff. I think it's because you're just thinking to hard, and your brain sorta flops on you. Then you just understand it.