Everything is valuable experience.

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Yep.

Because it's 100 percent true... much of life is in how you look at things and what you learn from it and there is something to learn and gain from everything.... two people can have the exact same situation but the student of life will experience a different experience then the whiner and complainer who refuses to see life for what it is... a large class room....

Anyways, it's a great way of looking at things.

 

Yes, life is full of adventure and unexpected situations. Also risk.

 

that's basically true, although not 100%.


for example, i don't think an innocent person forced to spend life in prison is having a "valuable experience."

 

They are if they write a book and start some kind of human rights group that goes on to prevent the same thing from happening to thousands of other people.... Or something...

 

ok then, what if they are sentenced to death, waste all their time on appeals that are ultimately denied, and still end up killed? (and no human rights group was inspired by their ordeal)

 

Then you are right and 100 percent of the time everything is not a valuable experience and such a situation is the sad exception to the rule.

 

BUT....

Depending on what you believe in....

Such an experience could still be valuable in a spiritual way... Maybe it's what a person is meant to get through and learn from in this existance to get to a higher spiritual plane...

But like I said, it depends on what you believe....

 

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other than lucky's spiritual example, i don't see any way such an experience could actually have "value" though...

sure it's still a life, but if you mean it's valuable just for that then this whole thread is pointless... i don't consider an experience valuable unless it somehow affects the life in a positive way

 

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i still disagree but i was supposed to be at work 15 minutes ago so i'll explain this evening...

 

alrighty.

 

eh, its kinda true. Sometimes shit just really sucks though.


But I know the experience that was the worst thing that couldve ever happend to me, and to this day i s till wish sometimes it never happened, still was deffinetely valuable. And it's played a big part and who i am now.And i did find positives from it.

But you cant tell everyone who has negative shit happen to them that theyre just looking at it wrong. Everyones different.

 

That's only true if a persons able to learn and grow through experiences.

A lot of time people don't I think.

 

Simple observation here...

The easier a path one has in life the less character they will tend to have. They lack perspective and likely haven't cultivated the ability or willingness to empathize with anyone else and will be self absorbed and difficult to like.

 

Everything is an aventure and/or an experience, but I don't think any of them are especially valuable.
It would be more valuable to know about the other outcomes too.

 

I am inclined to differ with this. The situations that we would rather avoid invariably turn out to have more value as we come out of them battle tested and better equipped to cope with life in general. They toughen us.

 

"He, O son of Pandu, who doth not hate these qualities -- illumination, action, and delusion -- when they appear, nor longeth for them when they disappear; who, like one who is of no party, sitteth as one unconcerned about the three qualities and undisturbed by them, who being persuaded that the qualities exist, is moved not by them; who is of equal mind in pain and pleasure, self-centered, to whom a lump of earth, a stone, or gold are as one; who is of equal mind with those who love or dislike, constant, the same whether blamed or praised; equally minded in honor and disgrace, and the same toward friendly or unfriendly side, engaging only in necessary actions, such an one hath surmounted the qualities."
Krsna from the Bhagavad Gita
That's my opinion at least, one which I gathered from my own experience as to measuring value before ever reading the book.

 

Yeah, but for what purpose?