What Is An Epiphany Essay

At some point and time in life, everybody has an epiphany. I like to call epiphanies “aha” moments or a moment when you figure something out and it changes your life and the way you view things. I am sure over the years, I have had plenty of epiphanies, like discovering my fingers and toes as a baby or learning how to ride a bike, but the only epiphany that sticks with me is the one that I had the summer before my senior year of high school. When I was little the future was so far away. I did not really care about what I wanted to be when I grew up. I always thought to myself, “Oh, I do not have to worry about that.” Now, everything has come and gone. I had not even sat down to take the time and reflect on the journey of life that I’d taken.
Being a teenager has been one of the most difficult moments in my life. The people around me change, tremendously. I do not mean just physically, but their character changes. I did not know growing up, that I would lose friends, but this is what I could not wait to grow up for, right? While being a teenager, true friends are the hardest thing to find. Every single day, I am surrounded by people who are not really true. Some of the people I thought were “friends” talk behind my back, they will lie to my face, and they will not truly like me. Well, not for who I truly am, anyway. Then there are those times when I did not have any friends at all, but that is just a step I had to
Remembering the old cartoons I used to laugh my butt off to, the times when I could not stay up passed nine o’clock, having a pure untouched mind of my own. The hardest decision I ever had to make was what ice cream flavor I wanted. Why was I so ready want to run away from my childhood? What happened to having a good time playing outside with my friends or siblings? I was eager to grow up already. I wanted to get out of school as soon as possible. I wanted to go away to college to be away from my parents. I wanted to live in a new apartment, a new city. Yes, I would be alone then. Yes, I would be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Yes, it would be my house, but it is not the home I grew up in. It does not have that warm feeling. I will just justify it by saying at least I am away from the “naggy” parents, but one day they will be gone. I am getting older, they are getting older, too. I will get homesick every now and then. I will miss my mom’s cooking and playing with my brother outside. Unfortunately, once I grow up, it is gone, and there will be nothing I can do about