EPIPHANY

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From the words of Ann Jauregui, Ph.D., “To experience an epiphany is to have sudden insight into the essential meaning of something, unleashed sometimes in exquisitely slow motion, sometimes in a flash.”

My first recollection of an epiphany was during my childhood days. I was sitting alone in a small quiet room in one afternoon when I for long try to see things in my mind. They came to me in series of questions - asking about our existence in this particular world. With those questions, I came to realize that I could not answer them directly nor could I pretend to know the answers back then. But deep inside of my very existence, there is a tiny part in me that knows all the answers. This tiny part of me illuminates the feeling of instantaneous fine and awe-inspiring grandness of joy. I know the answer to those questions but I could not describe the answers in words or in reactions.

I felt quieter that day but I elate more on the previous feeling, such a delighting moment and such a pleasure that how I wish to explore more. The seventh heaven did not last very long but I can still remember how it feels like. Whenever I remember the event I my brain waves reattach the live moment of that wonderful day but in a less eminence. Traces of the sensation can be recalled.

I did not know how to describe this feeling until a many years later that I discovered that this kind of feeling has a name, EPIPHANY.

There was another episode of epiphany that occurred in my college years. One morning I was walking along the sidewalk near my school when suddenly my feeling changed out of the blue. The timing came in with a snap of a finger but again the wonderful grandeur feeling faded for a minute or two. To how I recall, the sun above me gave me a sparkling touch on my skin and the cool breeze gave a pleasing relaxing aura. The combination of sun’s heat, the cool air and the moving feeling deep inside of me exhilarated the event. The feeling is very mutual, a very indescribable reaction to my whole body, and a thing that you cannot easily dismiss it by thought. It is something that you cannot easily forget.

People have experienced one or many epiphanies in their life. Some would talk about it and some would just think of it plainly but would only want to keep it to their selves. But there is one thing that I see in these phenomenons, I see life. The feeling of being alive is so enormous that even you yourself have not the capacity to express it in its exact measurement.