Experience- must it always be bitter?
A lot of folks out there have concluded that experience is synonymous to difficulty and bitterness. Some wail day and night about their ugly past experience. Teenagers tend not to forgive themselves for their past ‘black’ experience.
An average elder person will tell you that “experience is the best teacher”. What we often understand this to mean is that experiences are always acquired from the school of hard knocks. I don’t your view about this. If you want other readers to know your view about this (including my humble self), then feel free to comment on this article after reading what I have to say.
I feel that experience must not always be bitter. In fact, it ought to be exciting and adventurous. If I was to live in the time of Adam and Eve, maybe I would have said that experience must always be bitter. But because I live in this modern time, I have no reason whatsoever to say that experience must be bitter.
My first reason for saying this is that we are not supposed to live without mentors. Mentors are experienced teachers who learnt from their mentors and are willing to coach others to learn successfully. Everyone is obliged to have a mentor, irrespective of your interest. In case you don’t have one, go and get one now!
Another reason why I said that experience mustn’t be bitter is that there is what we call LEARNING. You learn on simulated situation and not on real situations. Though this does not apply to every aspect of life as there are areas you cannot simulate- Marriage is an example of an aspect that cannot be simulated, unless you are willing to go against the law (both physical and spiritual). But you can still learn from peoples’ research about it.
History is another gift that God gave to us to help us avoid some if not all costly mistakes. There is nothing happening now that has not happened in the past and recorded. All you need to do is to harness the potentials in the power of history and avoid the avoidable costly mistakes.
I have to make a confession here that I myself have made a couple of costly mistakes that eventually turned out to be become bitter experiences. The question now is how we all can fight this inertia of ours that make us always fall victim of this situation.
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