Comments on Epiphanies

So this is from a long time ago, but seeing as my blog is not from a long time ago, its going up now :)

I have often been asked then question, "Where do you have you greatest thoughts?", my epiphanies persei.  So one day while I was board, right after getting off work (which is fittingly one of the two places I usually have epiphanies), I thought to myself, "What is an epiphany?"  So I decided to look up the word.  The 3rd definition of the word epiphany is as follows:

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something OR A comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization.

So then I got to thinking, Do we really use the word right?  We use it so often can we really have sudden intuitive realizations about reality or life that often?  Then if we are having these epiphanies so often, why don't we understand the universe?  Should we know the answers to these questions such as: What is the meaning of life?  Why are we here?  What comes next?  Are we alone in the universe?  Is there a God?  Where do we come from and where are we going?

Honestly, if people are having epiphanies every day, why don't we know the answers to these questions?  Why are they still being asked? 

And just then, as luck would have it, it hit me; I had an epiphany about epiphanies.  Most epiphanies are personal – they aren't about these larger life questions, they're about our relationships, our life, our understandings.  Sure you could have a great epiphany and all of the sudden know the answers to these great questions about life and the almighty (after all, the second definition of epiphany is a revelatory message of a divine being) but they aren't the ones you're likely to have or usually need.  The important epiphanies are about our true selves and about our friends and relationships.  The important ones are the ones that might be dismissed as unimportant because they aren't about the grand scheme of things; the simple ones about ourselves and our friends and our relationships with them are the important ones that we should act on and treasure.  They're the ones that we really need the most.  And when we are blessed to get this little gift of knowledge, we should apply it and use it for betting ourselves and for improving our friendships.