Examples Of Epiphany

Innocence lost An epiphany is a spontaneous understanding, it can easily be likened to a mental slap across the face. The epiphany that made me realize that the world is not as I thought it was occurred in 8th grade. When I was a child I had this idea in my mind of what the world was like, in my head the world was accepting and kind, with a niche for everyone to fit into. I was naïve and had never really experienced the world for myself, so I based all my expectations off of the media and literature that I had been exposed to. Before 8th grade I attended only private orthodox schools, I lived a sheltered, and in my opinion boring, existence. My schooling lasted from early morning until late in the evening, I had nearly no time for leisure, so I remained in my house virtually all the time. I spent what little free time I had reading books, and watching television. This was no way for me to know that what was presented to me was not how the world, in fact, did work. In my 6th grade year I began begging my mother to transfer me into public school, believing that I would have as good …show more content…
But when that day came, my dreams turned into nightmares. Academically I did splendid, I made the honor roll every semester, and became a favorite of almost all my teachers, but my social situation was another story altogether. Throughout my 8th grade year, as well as high school, I was bullied mercilessly by my classmates, with no friends to back me up. My perfect vision of hordes of friends and time to frolic with them in between classes, came crashing down on me. It was then I saw, as the great Plato put perfectly, “the evil state of