Experience – good or bad – is an essential part of our life. When it is good, it enriches our life, when bad, it is a lesson worth learning. In either case, life experiences have a purpose, which is for our good.
Real experiences are mostly those who, through our choices and our making, are those who please us and enhance our lives, while the bad ones are those, which often catch us by surprise is something we call “bad luck.”
The former makes us happy, the latter caused us sorrow but viewed from an acute perspective, and one must admit, that the awful experience is ultimate of greater and more lasting value about the good.
One, which only gives temporary satisfaction or well-being, whilst the other, due to its undesirable and frequently painful result offers continuing benefit from “the lesson learned”.
Never to duplicate same, because the future recognition of the actual danger, temptation or external influence that lured us into the situation in the first place.
For this reason, life experiences are not worth lamenting about or feeling sorry for oneself as a consequence; but recognize and accept the benefits of the lessons learned!
The experience itself, which then is best forgotten, and the learned wisdom of it kept in mind with a cheerful and fearless approach to tackling any future one, of a similar nature, with the right attitude and even gratitude towards its useful lessons!
This way its “sting” is soon forgotten, and what follows, met with a new and optimistic approach which, after all, is better than only seeing the adverse side, which is mostly due to not “getting what one wants” or expected to get”, and the lasting disposition of feeling sorry for oneself!!
Unfortunately, the bad life experiences are usually more of in a lifetime than good ones, mostly due to the fact, so terrible memories linger around longer than real ones because we take the latter too much for granted and are therefore is met with less appreciation and thus is easier forgotten.
Right or wrong experiences are what makes life worth living. And an uneventful life makes life dull and unexciting, for experiences are, after all, the “spices of life”.