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Epiphanies Are Like Earthquakes
There always seem to be aftershocks
Whenever one experiences a very powerful epiphany it usually doesn’t stop there. For the next few hours and days and sometimes weeks or months the epiphany is followed by multiple minor epiphanies that all seem connected to the prior major epiphany. I hear that major earthquakes are a lot like that. But I’m not a seismologist so I could be wrong about that.
Well, I had an epiphany this afternoon that registered 9.3 on the Richter Scale — or whatever scale is used to measure epiphanies. I’ve already experienced a couple of subtle aftershocks this evening. Don’t ask me what the exact time was when the big one hit this afternoon but it was somewhere between 3:06 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. I don’t wear a watch so I could be wrong about that, too.
It is a major event when we realize that there was one little part of our life that we had all backwards. After that kind of major epiphany it takes a while to turn around so many aspects of one’s life that were influenced by that one backwards thing. Seriously, there can be a lot of things that have to be flipped around. And the more you flip, the more there is to flip. Entire universes open up as new perspectives come into focus. And each subsequent minor aftershock epiphany presents even more new perspectives.
