Phases

[starrylizard]

 Does anyone else feel like life is lived in phases divided by epiphanies? And the epiphany always comes out of the blue.  But it creeps up on you too. It's wonderful and scary and built upon many smaller revelations that have you suddenly reaching for understanding, but not quite getting there all at once.  And whenever this happens you don't have the words to explain it... at least not at first.  Because you're between phases... like a cocooned butterfly, still incubating, not yet able to open your wings.  Because to escape the cocoon, you need  to figure out the little revelations, put them all together,  accept what it all means and then figure out how to act on it. Because when you start to realise it, you know you need to act somehow,  but how? That's the hardest bit.  When you start to get  it,  and you'd like to talk about it,  work it all through... but there's no point trying to explain it to most friends or family,  because they are still in the old phase - expecting the same you. Does that happen to anyone else?