Unusual Epiphany (My Haha! moment)

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Man is born Tabula rasa (Aristotle). Our mind is like an unscripted tablet at birth. Day by day, life's experiences and interactions change this and our minds become what in my own words I now call Pockets of Thoughts.

I am sure you are familiar with the haha moment. I will be sharing with you my latest haha moment. This was particularly an unsual one. A cool epiphany that has helped me to bring perspective to the identity of this blog. Yesterday was the re-birth of "The Pot" as we knew it to be.

The Haha moment is that moment when the ardenaline rush is at the zenith. At such historical moment, you realize that you just had an insight or a breakthrough. I had my latest eureka moment last nite. I was with my Fiancee. This was about 9pm in the nite. I had dropped her off after work. I am happy with the progress of my relationship. I had gotten a wonderful sms from her earlier. Let me share it with you:

From Shally: Femi despite ur shakara, ur little bit of drama. I really appreciate you and how you make me smile even when am totally unhappy and in pain. You have d ability 2 provide solutions and make complex issues simple. God bless you. See ya in my office.

You bet I feel like a million dollars. Seriously! (her line) who wouldn't?

Well, that wasn't my epiphany. My epiphany came through after about 30 minutes in her house. I was relaxed in the couch after eating a delicious plate of rice and chicken (Shally does a great job). It was an unexpected moment of some sort. She was talking to me but at a point she lost me (this is not unusual). I get lost in a chain of thoughts from time to time (random musings). Its just part of who I am. She snapped me out of that recess and asked me what the issue was this time around? I replied " You know me nah. Just pockets of thoughts o!". I made this phrase subconsiously. It was after three seconds that it dawned on me that that phrase meant more to me.

The title of this blog before this morning was The Pot where Pot stood for nothing other than a metaphorical expression. I spoke about this in my maiden post. My phrase and the coincidence of it with the Pot title was my moment of epiphany. Pockets of Thoughts and Pot are directly related in the spirit of acronyms. With this beautiful coicidence, the blog now has a new title. My Pockets of Thoughts which is just perfect for it.

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