Awareness and Consciousness

Transformation is a process which every individual should go through, but most will never completely accomplish. The article talks about awareness. By many it has been difficult to thoroughly explain or define what it actually means to be aware. Awareness is best described as the distinction of the unconscious and conscious development of oneself. The definition or interpretation of what awareness really means is different from person to person just like any other matter. Metta Zetty explains that awareness is being an observer of you from an outer viewpoint. I think that I agree with this outlook of awareness because you can only be aware of yourself if you’re looking upon yourself from the outside in. When you are able to look upon yourself and have the large realization of many things that you weren’t aware of before, this is referred to as an epiphany. The definition that is given in the reading is that epiphany is when there is a manifestation of truth or complete meaning of something is learned. I think that many people experience epiphanies throughout their lifetimes for many different reasons. In my personal experience, I had an epiphany when I was in high school and one of my good friends died in a car accident. Before this event happening, I really didn’t mind who I got into a car with, it really was never a big deal to me. When I found out that my friend died in a car accident and he wasn’t even the driver it devastated me. At this point, I felt like the epiphany started to happen. When I found out that he died, I started to understand and analyze that you can die in a car accident, you can die from riding in a car, you can die when you’re not even the one in control of the car, and my life completely changed. This was a turning point in my life. After this happened, I really think about who I’m getting into a car with. Even though this probably isn’t a huge change, just that one experience that happened made me realize so many things about myself and the way that I was doing things. I became conscious of so many things that would’ve never even crossed my thoughts before he died and this thought became a strong reality. I guess for some people to learn and change they must experience some big that hits them close to home, not necessarily death but something big enough to cause a change in the thought process.