You never know when an epiphany is going to strike. I was 36 when I had one of those 'moments' and it led me down a path that was a real rollercoaster emotionally, but it was the best time of my life for a number of reasons. I didn't get the girl, but I think in the long run that was for the best, and I'm in a much better place now. Life can yank the rug out from under our feet now and then. I don't think that the actual event is the most important thing, as much as what we learn from it.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
