Young Peyton manning was a colt / And old Peyton is a bronco
A -Sudden Clarity Clarence post.
Midnight at a party, music loud, a sausage roll in your hand. You suddenly realise you've never once seen a baby pigeon, and you can't enjoy anything else for the rest of the night. In the supermarket queue it hits you: a family size bag of crisps is just the size you eat alone in the car. You put it back. You pick it up again. Some truths are too big. Twenty minutes left in the exam, and you notice that "abbreviation" is a very long word. The question is about the French Revolution. You have written nothing about the French Revolution. Halfway through a "quick sync" you realise it has lasted longer than your last relationship. You can't unsee it. You also can't leave, because it is still going. **Why it caught on:** a young man was photographed with his eyes wide open at Schoolies, the Australian school-leavers' festival on the Gold Coast, in 2009. Reddit gave him his first epiphany in November 2011, "dubstep sucks", and everyone has had the big thought at the worst possible moment.