Epiphany

The professor's requests that we go out and have an epiphany, have been ironic to say the least. Knowing the nature of epiphanies they come at you in a uncanny manner, one that is very profound and usually life changing. Upon this subject I can at least tell you of one epiphany that I had that changed my life in a way.

It happened when I was in the sixth grade at the approximate age of ten or eleven years old, maybe I was tweleve. In any case I was at home listening to the AC/DC that was being projected from the Bose radio that sat in the kitchen. I think I was playing the album "High Voltage" which I had recently purchased from a cd outlet that week. If I remember right the song that was playing at the time was "It's a long way to the top" I remember I had the radio at a high level of volume, as is necessary when listening to AC/DC, and I was playing my air guitar. As I reached my hand above my head to strike the strings with the air pick, I waited for the chorus to begin. One cue as Angus Young's guitar roared so did mine I hit the strings and felt strange. A chill went up my spine and I felt slightly numb all over my body, and I remember thinking one thought. One thought in particular. "I've got to learn how to play guitar"

The following weeks I began to play on my father's neglected acoustic regularly, and eventually convinced him to pay for guitar lessons. Looking back I can't help but think about how different things would be now if I hadn't been playing air guitar that night. I've no doubt I would have made different friends, brought different things, and been a different person.