I have a long way to go.
Aldous Huxley once said…. “Experience is not what happens to you.  It is what you do with what happens to you.”

Now holy smokes and hallelujah.  Isn’t that the truth?  Experience is what we DO with what happens.

When we wake up in the morning… things begin to happen. It is how time, and the world, and the universe works.  Things happen over and over and over again.

They can happen TO us.  Or we can MAKE things happen.  Or we might just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.  It is all happenstance, really.  But old Mr. Huxley had it going on.  It is what we DO with all these happenings.  Ah.  That is the experience of life.

Here’s another thing.  I am amazed at the people who come up with these profound quotes.  My words of wisdom never seem to catch on in the mainstream of things.

Like….
“Sock Monkeys are the happiest thing, dang it.”
Or… “Ask not what your Sock Monkey can do for you…. but what you can do for your Sock Monkey.”
Or what about….
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their Sock Monkeys.”

Ahhh, chuck it.  I guess I need more experience.

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” – C.S. Lewis

“The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein