Day 314 of wisdom
“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
Whatever a man does in life, the place of experience cannot be overemphasised. Experience is the cumulative knowledge garnered over time in a specific field of endeavour and in life generally. Experience is key to our growth and development as human beings, without the requisite experience for a particular stage of life we cannot sail through that stage undented, we will definitely struggle to go through every phase for which we do not have the required experience.
Experience they often say, is the best teacher, but sometimes it is very expensive to be taught by experience. Some things are best learnt through personal experience, but some are best learnt from people who have personally experienced the situations, or know someone who have. We cannot endeavour to experience everything we have to experience in life before we would be able to do some things the way it should be done, we must find ways to learn from people's experiences and use it to our own advantage.
As in a Belgian proverb which says, "Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald" sometimes, our experiences are not actually useful for us rather, they are to be shared with those who will need it, it is thereby our responsibility to ensure that we do not allow these experiences go to waste, but pass it on accordingly. As much as experience cannot be taught, it is wisdom to learn from other people's experience, it saves us a whole lot of stress.
Experience is not cheap, it is not gotten on a platter of gold neither is it available to everyone, but it is duly paid for. As Thomas Carlyle would say, "Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other." Your time, money, and sometimes your body are some of the wages paid for experience. You can't get experience for nothing, you have to pay the price, and there is no price too much for an experience that is sure to take you to the next level of your life. Give all it takes to gather meaningful experiences in life, a little experience will do a lot more than truck loads of advice.
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