Once i argued with a friend of mine…well, maybe not arguing, but more like having a quite heated discussion…anyway, it’s about experience, my view was, experience comes solely from doing things and not by how old you are…my reason being, only by doing things you can understand how it is, and what makes it tick… for example, let say in a game of basketball, you have 2 person, Me and another young boy of the age of 17. By the way, this is a true story… between me and him, well, there’s a huge gap of age there and ofcoz i started playing basketball first, however, since i only play it on n off and he had been playing it more before he is 17 than all my years combined, he is more experienced than me, the result in an one on one match: my ass kicked…(not funny..haha)…well, just imagine, he play basketball at least once a day and twice on weekend…me? well, 10 times in the whole year…wouldn’t that make me a baby in his hand during a match?seriously…
“Nothing I do can’t be done by a ten-year-old with fifteen years of practice.” ~ Harry Blackstone Jr. (1934-1997) U.S. magician
Ofcoz..not all experiences is directly related to doing thing, we also have to learn from what others around us do or didnt do… for instance, we dont need to get your hand burned after seeing someone get burnt. This would be plain dumb, in this case, we should just keep in mind that being burnt is painful, suffering and not at all fun by just looking at the expression and reaction of the burned person…
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.” ~ Alfred Sheinwold
however, this wont be a true experience for us, it’s a learnt knowledge, wisdom if u will…because although we know it’s painful and all when burned, we cant really fully understand the feeling, the painful feeling.
Seriously, experiences also comes more from being affected directly by incidents, bad incidents work better than the other, i might say…for instance, we can learn all we need to know about how friendship, how a true friend should be, the value of friendship, but until we need them the most we will experience the true meaning of friendship and we will learned who’s our real friends are…for instance, we all have our close friend right, then one day, something bad happened to us and we need their help and they’re not there to help us, let’s say for unreasonable reason. Wont this make us realized which kind of friend we can really rely on by being directly feeling the affect of 2 bad incident, the first incident and the refusal of our so called friend to help for unreasonable reason. The worse the incident, the better your understanding of that experiences. Give you another example, lets say you’ve been betrayed by someone or more close friend. You’ll have a more extensive understanding of what kind of friend would have the risk of betraying you…of coz, how one considered as betrayal is for us to decide.
“I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college.” ~ Hubert Humphrey, speech, 1960
But ofcoz, im not denying, age is related to experience as well because theoretically, the older we are, the more we did something, the more incidents we’ve gone through, but this is just a theoretical concept, age is not a direct link to experience, much less maturity (i should know, I’m still considered as not mature enough by some), but that’s beside the point…My point is, no matter what age we are, we might not be more experienced from the people younger than us in all things.
“Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had, and what you’ve learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.”
Author Unknown
what am i writing about? am i making any sense? or all this is just bullshit?
dunno, and seriously dont care…still…
take care y’all…
love n prayers for y’all….
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