I use the term epiphany to mean: A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something. I am not religious so I am coming from the everyday meaning of things.
When I was a little girl, about 9 I think, I had my first epiphany.
Let's backtrack first. I know that babies think that they are the sun, the center of the universe. At some point that assumption is destroyed - but when, I don't know. Maybe I'm slow.
Anyway, when I was a little girl, about 9 I think, I had my first epiphany. I remember sitting in the back seat. We were on a trip. A car with kids came up on the left side of us (my seat side) and waved at me for a second or two as I waved back in return. And then they were gone.
I thought, hmmm, wonder what they are like. Hmmm, where do they go to school. Hmmm, do they have their own story about them, like my story about me? Seriously, I knew I had come upon something new and wonderfully interesting: Other People Have Their Own Lives Even When I Can't See Them! WOW!
"Mommy, Mommy guess what I just discovered!?" "Everyone has a life even when we can't see them" "Yeh, Mommy, really it's true." And then back to my own world. Mommy probably thought I'd just "lost it." Maybe I had.
This kinda applies to my looking out my window. As I see my friends and neighbors go by, I wonder "What is happening in their lives?"
And then I make up stories. Some of which might be true.
