... I've had this happpen a few times in my life, though it seems it never happened when I thought I needed it to, but the timing was always perfect nonetheless. One in particular strikes me right now: I had this book lying around my book shelf forever, I picked it up a few times, but never read it. Then one day, as I was mulling over the terrible slights that had been done to me, thinking of the people that MADE me make those decisions that put me in this awful position I was in, I read it. "Who moved my cheese". In the beginning, I'm thinking 'OK, I could have written this, this is beneath me, a child's book', but as I continued to read it, the very simplicity of it became oh so clear ~ the older we get, the more complicated we tend to make things. Then I got to the end, where a very simple question was posed to me, the hapless reader: "What would you do if you weren't afraid". I was awestruck. How could I have not seen this ? I thought about that one line for the rest of the day, and that evening as well. It was a supreme paradigm shift, where everything is exactly as it was a moment of before, but that one additional piece of information changed everything. Suddenly, I had an extreme moment of clarity with so many things: my relationship was where it was because I was AFRAID of offending the one I love; my career wasn't what I wanted NOT because of those people that worked against me, but because I was AFRAID of failure, so I didn't go for what I really wanted; I even realized that I was unhappy with my boring life because I didn't go after those adventurous hobbies. Why ? Because I was afraid of looking stupid. "What would you do if you weren't afraid". Amazing. So, now it goes to you, hapless reader ~ what is an epiphany YOU'VE had ?

I am to (too?) young for epiphanies. The closes I came is finding out my breast attracted guys and I could use them to get things.