Hi!
I’m Snaps. Thanks for stopping by.
You spend the early part of life thinking you know everything and not caring, really, if anyone knows that you don’t know anything. Then the middle-ish part is spent in realizing just how much you don’t know and hoping that folks don’t, in any way that really counts, discover your uncertainty.
When you reach a certain age, though, you get to experience what I call, “Snaps”. A Snap happens when you suddenly realize you understand something fully and clearly for what may be the first time. The “Ah-hah!” when you fully understand that thing that bothered or nagged you from time to time but you never seemed to have the time to really suss it out, that thing that “never felt quite right”, but now, suddenly, wonderfully, does.
Some people (I often do) will snap their fingers at these times. Hence the term. People look at you wondering what it is or asking outright what it’s about. You wave them off, telling them you thought you forgot your glasses.
There’s no feeling quite like it in my experience. And, when I think about it, there shouldn’t be. You’ve thought about these things–a little or a lot–for years, sometimes decades. The victories, great and small, are very, very sweet.
These are my Snaps about politics. The order of the entries may not be faithful to the passing of time.