The moments don't have to include huge events or grand revelations, so long as they reveal something of reality. I had the strangest flashback today. I have absolutely no idea what triggered it, but it was of an epiphany of mine back in about 1978. I had this friend named Mark. Not that I blame him for that, because we haven't seen each other in maybe 15 years, and there is little in common there now but memories of a time when we were much younger and saw each other regularly.
Life manages to be full as it is, and the days pass.
Mark was in my classes from at least 4th grade on. We found we had the same birthday, so that gave us an immediate bond of sorts. And we also discovered that we had offbeat senses of humor, and were a little quicker on the uptake than most of the other kids in our classes. So we hit it off. I have a picture of Mark and me in the playground in 4th grade with our arms around each other.