# After an Epiphany

Originally published: 2013-01-09
Canonical URL: /2013/Jan/after-an-epiphany/

I've been _so confused_ in _so many ways_ that I had been _specifically warned against_ dozens of times, in writing _and_ in person, and I _still didn't get it!_ Of course, I was warned about this, too: everyone knows that there are things you don't know that you don't know, and that there's a difference between endorsing a proposition, and integrating its implications into your way of thinking. But it's still such a shock to actually _see_ ... to go so _suddenly_ from hating the local Authorities for not telling you all the true and important things that your friends have been telling you, to _noticing_ that the things that your friends have been telling you can _actually be applied_ to stop being so hurt all the time about how the local Authorities had misled you.