Was there ever a "light bulb moment" ----a "Eureka!"---- in your life, when you finally "got it", that led you to new clarity on some important life issue?

This happened 2 weeks ago.I had a very certain path I thought I should take in my life (mainly because people had told me this was the plan to go by), and an exam was going to determine the results for that, I was so stressed out about it that I got so sick I lost 22 lbs in 2 weeks, so naturally I messed up.

And while I was taking my exam,in my fragile physical state, I realized  my purpose in life should make me happy, make me passionate, not the opposite way, so I decided to go for what I want, not what others think I should want.

Way back in the infancy of the internet, when it took a person minutes to get on the web via phone modem, I was watching TV one night and saw a commercial with a www. address displayed on it. That was something that I had never seen before and the light bulb exploded in my head. I researched how to register domain names and started to register hundreds of what I thought would be usable domain names. Once the government got their hands out of the game and private industry took over the registration process (for a fee), I started selling the domain names to major corporations. They were willing to pay a premium price to me for those domains.

Ahh yes, the awesomeness of the Epiphany!

That feeling of sudden clarity when all things align themselves to that moment when reason has but one path that is unobstructed by nuances of doubt or "Thought Noise".

It is such a defining moment that you will most likely never forget it in your life. One of the first such moments, was regarding the origin of the Biblical Canons. This was me in my college class as we talked about exactly HOW the Bible came to be:

That moment when Naiveté and Indoctrinated Ignorance are stripped away to make way for logic.

When I was in my fifties, I finally woke up and realized my mom had been absolutely correct.  Life DOES go by faster as you grow older.  I'm nearly 70 now and practically dizzy with the flying years.