My epiphany.

[PixieFace]

A few years back, I was going through some old things of my childhood. There was a box of important knick-knacks coated - I mean coated - in dust. As I ran my fingers through it, I realized that my whole life up until that point was manifested in that dust clinging to my fingers. I relived all the pain and loss, the dust triggering a stream of flash backs. The stuff was so meager and small, maybe even gross, but it meant so much. I realized then that even when a problems seems horrific at the time, it will indeed eventually wilt into dust and I should never worry myself sick over trivialities. I have to have faith that life will move on. I also realized that one day I would become that dust entirely, and I was essentially holding myself in my fingers. It was a strange, surreal feeling.

 

[Captain Lag]

I was just sitting around one day thinking about things, and something about numbers popped into my head and then pow!, I was good at math. Like magic really.

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

Hey guys, as none of you know, I'm 15. And I just had, what I would like to call, my very first epiphany.

I mean, today was just a normal day, but I was listening to music when, suddenly, I realized that no one's special. Not me, not you reading this, not anyone. I mean, this planet is [sub]small[/sub]. Compared to every thing else in the universe, its like 1 pixel on a 60' HD television. The chances that there are more planets like earth, with maybe an even more advanced civilization, is almost assured there are like 4,000 others.

Well that was my 2 cents. Discuss if you want. [sub]Please do [/sub]

Discussion guidelines:

1.Have you had an epiphany?
2.What was it?
3.How did it feel afterward?

That must have been a good 15 years if it took you that long to figure it out.

I don't think I've ever had my own epiphany, as my thoughts generally form together slowly; rarely at once in a life changing moment, unfortunately.

1 & 2: The closest thing I've got was when I really thought over my old religion and decided that it wasn't for me.
3: It messed up my mother and really pissed off my father (mostly because I'm fairly certain he feels the same way as I do. He was just being empathetic). But, we've all moved on and are "happy" again.

 

[Fappy]

Hey guys, as none of you know, I'm 15. And I just had, what I would like to call, my very first epiphany.

I mean, today was just a normal day, but I was listening to music when, suddenly, I realized that no one's special. Not me, not you reading this, not anyone. I mean, this planet is [sub]small[/sub]. Compared to every thing else in the universe, its like 1 pixel on a 60' HD television. The chances that there are more planets like earth, with maybe an even more advanced civilization, is almost assured there are like 4,000 others.

Well that was my 2 cents. Discuss if you want. [sub]Please do [/sub]

Discussion guidelines:

1.Have you had an epiphany?
2.What was it?
3.How did it feel afterward?

1. Many
2. About the selfish nature of the human race
3. Disappointing

Btw, a fifteen year old with a Pedobear avatar, not only is that slightly ironic, but it reminds me that there are such young and frail minds on sites like 4Chan... makes me

 

[CouchCommando]

Mine was just like yours but instead of the epiphany that no ones special, it was that every one is an asshole, you, me the other as not yet discovered life forms. Everyone, these days I take life as it comes, full of assholes even if I'm alone there will still be one asshole there ..... me.

 

[Cody211282]

Weird I had that same thought after watching Men In Black the first time, then I realized I didn't care.

Mostly I find epiphany useless because a) someone has already thought of it first and said it better,and probably published it, b) no one single thought can influence how I look at things in the world, it take a lot more then that, and c) I hate wasting time thinking about stuff that is in no way ever going to affect my life.

But that's just my 2 cents

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

I realised half a year ago, that the human race will never change, that we will continue killing ourselves until there's no one left to kill.
Then I became a transhumanist and developed megalomania and misanthropy.

 

[klakkat]

The only thing I've had that's even close to an "epiphany" is related to learning. I don't believe that personality shifts due to an "epiphany" are genuine or lasting; everything I am is built up from a slow process during my entire life. "Epiphany" moments for me are more like sudden bursts of understanding, the last one I can identify was more along the lines of "oh, so THAT'S how you derive an abstract Laplace transformation using Greens functions!" which occurred very suddenly and conveniently during my final exam.

 

[manic_depressive13]

I realised that one man's epiphany is another man's obvious fact, and the harder we try the stupider we look.

 

[Alien93]

We are tiny in a physical way but in our decisons and actions we can be so much bigger. Through history people have lived on in memories because of their honourable actions. I know its cheezy but our actions really make us bigg or small

 

[Ninjamedic]

Sometimes when I'm in school I'll realize something or come up with an idea.

Basically, I can sum it up to "If I got elected this is how I would turn America into a Dictatorship" the plan has some lose ends, but I think it could work.

Then the invasion of France follows I guess?

 

[neoontime]

what, epiphany does'nt mean the strange feeling in your pants

 

[Vampire cat]

'Holy shit I'm fucking tall'

Had that one in the car, looked down at my legs & it just hit me.

I had something similar when in high school I looked down on the tallest boy in class and realized "aww crap, im fucking tall"

what, epiphany does'nt mean the strange feeling in your pants

Ask your dad about flowers and bees, ok?

 

[Eagle Est1986]

Driving home the other day, it finally hit home that I will grow old and die like everyone else.

 

[Vitor Goncalves]

Hey guys, as none of you know, I'm 15. And I just had, what I would like to call, my very first epiphany.

I mean, today was just a normal day, but I was listening to music when, suddenly, I realized that no one's special. Not me, not you reading this, not anyone. I mean, this planet is [sub]small[/sub]. Compared to every thing else in the universe, its like 1 pixel on a 60' HD television. The chances that there are more planets like earth, with maybe an even more advanced civilization, is almost assured there are like 4,000 others.

Well that was my 2 cents. Discuss if you want. [sub]Please do [/sub]

Discussion guidelines:

1.Have you had an epiphany?
2.What was it?
3.How did it feel afterward?

Noone is special in the sense no1 deserves to stand above all the others, but all are special in the sense all are unique.

I had too many epiphanies to even bother to remember, they obviously changed me in a sense, made me see things in a diferent way.

 

[Biosophilogical]

That is completely true and totally wrong, because you just compared human life to the entire universe, and yet, if you compare us to something else, like our children or something, we are one of the most important people in the universe. So really, it's a matter of perspective, which is a wonderful thing by the way, as it means you can make your life as important or insignificant as you want, which is great. If you have devastating problems, you can go "Well they aren't important" but if you just need an ego boost, you can go "I am the most important thing in this universe".

Well that's my two cents worth, though whether it is worth the same as your two cents we will never know. After all, it's relative

EDIT: Discussion stuff I guess ...

I've never had an epiphany, more like a gradual yet wuick progression to an enlightening conclusion ... but no epiphanies

I don't know what it/they were, I guess I just kind of put them into the same box as 'laws of physics, and other stuff' ...

... How did I feel??? WEll, I like knowing things, and understanding things, so I'm going to lock in a) Epicly Buzzed on Ecstatic Satisfaction

 

[Kragg]

Mine wasn't really an epiphany, but a series of them.

Basically, I was lying in bed waiting to go to sleep, and I started thinking about politics.

Basically, I can sum it up to "If I got elected this is how I would turn America into a Dictatorship" the plan has some lose ends, but I think it could work.

do elaborate ...

 

[thejdcole]

Hey guys, as none of you know, I'm 15. And I just had, what I would like to call, my very first epiphany.

I mean, today was just a normal day, but I was listening to music when, suddenly, I realized that no one's special. Not me, not you reading this, not anyone. I mean, this planet is [sub]small[/sub]. Compared to every thing else in the universe, its like 1 pixel on a 60' HD television. The chances that there are more planets like earth, with maybe an even more advanced civilization, is almost assured there are like 4,000 others.

Well that was my 2 cents. Discuss if you want. [sub]Please do [/sub]

Discussion guidelines:

Yes we are very small in relation to the unfathomably huge universe. But the fact that out of some huge, huge, huge coinscidense that just at the right time in the creation of our solar system, this celstial lump of rock just happened to be travelling at precisley the right speed, in the most precise direction, and that a meteor carrying water and other vital elements just happened to hit us at deliver the most vital of components for life. Not only that, but also that we are the exact distance from the sun for water to be fluid and for life to evolve and thrive... and not only that but that life evolved into intelligent beings... and not only that but that these intelligent beings became so intelligent that we managed to create light, create electricity and find out the exact conditions 0.001 seconds after the whole of everything in the universe was created.. i think that makes this planet very, very special.

And you say that there could be 4000 planets just like us? Well there are around 40 billion trillion planets in our observable universe.. if someone said i was one in a million trillion, i would feel pretty damn special

 

[thejdcole]

Driving home the other day, it finally hit home that I will grow old and die like everyone else.

Even more reason to live life to the fullest. So that you leave somthing awesome behind when you are gone .