dear bear: I want to have more epiphanies - by Ava

I am currently in Tokyo and I find myself stopping at a lot of vintage stores as I come across them, not looking for anything in particular, except for the off chance that something on the racks will resonate deeply with me. It’s that headspace where these questions are coming from. I find myself constantly looking for epiphanies - the moment of clarity they bring, the way perspective shifts with a deeper understanding, the whole sense of confluence and serendipity. But it seems problematic too. I do not have a reliable way to arrive at an epiphany - it all feels slot machine-y. Will it appear through the next book, the next tweet, the next trip, etc. Also, I find the nature of epiphanies is that they sort of appear - something that you have to see before you can define rather than something you can simply ask for like a particular ingredient at the supermarket, but maybe this is just intellectual laziness on my part. I guess my questions are: - How can I more reliably arrive at epipha

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