Measuring experience

        We often note the consequences of a fall when we try something beyond our capacities. True experience is trying to overcome obstacles. The experience of mountaineers is due to the many falls they have suffered throughout their lives. For ordinary people, these experiences are limited to reaching the roof of a house or a quick feeling inside lifts.
       Mountaineers, however, have experienced great risks, they know, exactly, what falling from great heights would be like. So, it is important that those who have gone through difficult situations, and they perceive and calculate each step to continue climbing.
     Life experience comes from these situations because it is during these difficult moments in life journey that we acquire knowledge. Nothing compares to the scars gained from both bad and great adventures. What are the perspectives of adventurers who collect scars after their journey through the unknown?
        Sometimes, the pain becomes bearable when we fall during our adventures – the pain from learning. We learn to act, feel and measure the consequences of our adventures; and we go ahead, calculating the costs and benefits of them.
        If life experience is the accumulation of knowledge, we must share it to prove we are good instructors. When we share what we know, we reach a kind of immortality or recognition that others admire. What is the importance of older people in a community, if they do not share the learning gained from suffering?
       Experience is accumulating knowledge. When we share knowledge we are encouraging others to aim for greater goals. It does not matter if someone overcomes us, but if we are remembered as those who opened doors for others, this is more than a generous act, it is an action that becomes an immortal legacy.
      How many people have reached higher levels due to generous shoulders that have transmitted their wisdom, their learning and their pain to allow humanity to move forward.
      Historical figures are immortal, even if they did not achieved all their goals. Their greatest trials were the most difficult moments in their lives. Yet they did not give up, nor were selfish with their knowledge, and they shared their experiences over time. They turned into the most loving and idolised stubborn individuals who shaped our future.
      They were happy because, even when defeated, they could say that were never co-opted by ignorance. Some of them were recognised and their memories are revered.
       In life, our difficult moments are the most valuable due to deeper learning. When we do not listen to or scorn so-called losers who warn us about danger ahead, we judge them as fearful or old. Fear is respect for the road, the forest, a new job, and the challenges that we face.  Only those who are most experienced have felt fear and instead of going back, they continued pursuing their goals. The fear taught them caution and their life experience allowed them to go beyond. The scorning from those who criticised them only revealed their own lack of preparation to embrace a life of adventure and beauty.

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