So recently, I've been watching copious amounts of Grey's Anatomy, and I found a monologue that really hits home-- and I swear it's not dumb. Below, there is a link to the footage, but basically, it's spoken by the character Erica Hahn, and it's about how her romantic experiences with a female and eventual realization of homosexuality, were like trying glasses on for the first time. In other words, this monologue describes an epiphany.

In the case of Erica Hahn, the realization is that after years of thinking she was content with men, after years seeing the leaves on trees as nothing more than green blobs, a single experience came along and showed her that the world she thought she was perfectly fine with could be so much better -- happier, more beautiful, and less confusing. If this happened to someone else, the epiphany could've been anything, or it could've been a slower realization, but equally as earth-shaking. The point isn't that this monologue is great for the LGBTQ* community-- although, it is-- the power of this type of realization is all that matters.

Now, It's not that you have to be able to relate to having this kind of revelation. In fact, I'm pretty sure most people have never had a life changing realization like this, and I suppose in most cases it's good that they haven't. I'd like to think that people who go through life without an epiphany don't need one -- they're not missing out. But then again, doesn't that kind of change sound magical? Doesn't it sound great to go through life, feeling fine, not much to complain about, and then, suddenly, you discover it gets better? It's happier than happiness. It's knowing something you never knew you didn't know. It might as well be magic. Your entire world could change, which could be scary, and disconcerting for sure, even terrifying at first, but it changed for the better. In just a short time, your life got better than you ever knew possible...

Like I said, it's like magic, and I think a world where everyone could have something as simple as a realization make their whole life better, would be a great one. And that's all really because, sadly, the problem with an epiphany is that it can't be forced.

But it can be looked for.

So maybe you're not a hopeless romantic about this like me, or maybe you don't really care--ignorance is bliss and all that-- but if you do, just watch the video. Get all emotional. That's all I can really say.