Webster’s Third new international Dictionary Unabridged wrote:Epiphany
1. - A sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something.
2 - An intuitive grasp of reality through something usually simple and striking such as a common place, event, or person.
This is a mindset altering process. When you have an epiphany your whole perception of preconceived notions radically changes; and this is usually a rather sudden occurrence.
I have had two epiphanies in my life time:
One when I was a sophomore in high school (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth
)
and one last night.
Have you ever had an epiphany and if so post it here (If you are so inclined)
I will share my epiphany from last night to get the thread started.
I was working last night and as I was driving out to The Fairport Baptist Home to do an X-Ray on a resident there.
I past a large beautiful home between Webster and Fairport. I looked at that home and said to myself “What a great house! I wish I could afford a house like that!”
Suddenly it occurred to me that the house I was admiring was at least $400,000 worth of house and it looked like their was a really good sized chunk of land as well. I’m guessing minimum 1 acre.
My house cost $89,900!
We live in a reasonable decent sized home; 2,000 sq. feet. The house is quite unique. It is built into the side of a hill in the woods.
It was built by a Merchant Marine in 1930. It has five levels from the sub-basement to the attic. The sub-basement walks out into the back yard ¼ acre that is also the bottom of the hill before a wetland area in the bottom 1/3 of the property.
The windows all around the lee facing side of the subbasement are portholes!
Real onew with 1 in. thick glass. He even had little round screens made so that you could open the portholes in the summer.
There are tons of nautical aspects to the house or property that they are too numerous to list. A mast and wheel in the back yard are kind of cool. (flag pole).
We are still close to a major expressway for my home city but we are at the same time very secluded. Not many people even know that my street extends down the outlet on the other side of that expressway that I mentioned.
I live on Irondequoit Bay. All around the parameter of this bay are sloped valleys or hollows that lead down to inlets in the bay where there is access to the water by boat. We have the following animals living in the hollow with us:
deer, possums, ground hogs (Gunther), coyote, , raccoons, chipmunks, rabbits,
skunks (peehew – incidentally my neighborhood has a nickname: Skunk Hollow not kidding
),
a flock of wild turkeys (though they haven’t been around the last couple of years, but they will come back they apparently always do.), in other words woodland creatures.
Irondequoit has a very prolific woodland population BTW.
The girls share a room but it is a very nice room that I decorated myself with all kinds of stenciling and murals, decoupage etc… on the walls. They have a playroom that leads into their bedroom which is also a nice sun porch and they have private outdoor access.
Ally has soccer on Saturday’s and Swimming on Sunday’s. Emily is being signed up for Dance class in June when the summer program begins.
There are children in the hollow that play with my girls.
(if you have visited St. Mungo’s you have probably read about some of them.)
I have an Associates in Applied Science. That is a two year degree and a license to practice Radiologic Technology with the State of New York.
I am also current at the moment with my National Registry Status although I will most likely let that lapse again and re-take the test in the future if I have to.
I make a reasonable wage for my education and two year degree. (although my husband who has a high school diploma and some training in the military still makes more per hour than I do, but not by much)
We are middle income citizens. Our kids are comfortable and happy. They have more than I did growing up.
When I drove past that house going back I looked at it again then said to myself “I wish I could afford that home? No I don’t.”
I am not married to a software engineer and I am not one myself. (I am using software engineer as a means of implying higher income jobs) I do not want to spend the time or the money involved with going back to school and acquire a PHD which is what I would have to do to be able to afford that house.
For the first time in my life I am looking at my LIFE as an overall picture and I am not focusing on the niggly little stuff but my LIFE as a whole and it isn’t bad.
I have improved in quality of life from the time I was a child and my only hope now is to wish the same improvement for my children in their adult and parenting years.
