Beware of anyone who claims to have had an "epiphany" about their life or anyone who speaks of a moment of startling clarity when it all made sense, who mentions the "path" they've undertaken, or their "journey of self-discovery." These sorts of people will corner you and bore you to the point where your primary options are suicide, murder, and murder-suicide. Be especially wary if these striking perceptions occurred while sitting in a swing at a children's playground in the middle of the night. If you decide to go with murder, keep a weapon handy, something blunt that can be easily discarded as you flee into the night.

"...And let me tell you, it was quite a reality check" is what you might hear, in one of those brief moments when you're paying attention, or "...and suddenly it all fell into place." This person's pathological narcissism will try very clumsily and obviously to pass itself off as a generalized concern for the spiritual health of all of us, or you in particular, when actually it describes a raging egotism so profound that it can only be likened to the exclusionary self-concern of an extremely hungry predatory animal, one who is sustained not by the meat of prey but by the fascinated attention of others. If any human individual of normal mental capacity sits in a quiet room and thinks, he will eventually come up with some assessments about the state of his life, his past actions and future possibilities. The evolved human brain is designed to do this, after all, it's not intrinsically noteworthy. The brain is not, however, very adept at achieving the critical perspective from which it could determine that such insights are most likely utterly banal and of no interest to others, and that the urge to share them should be resisted unless they can be transmuted into art or humor, which they probably can't.