Experiences

Today’s class was very thought provoking; it stirred up many questions and ideas within my mind. Specifically the talks about experiencing something (such as travel which was the common example in class) and reading others accounts. Some argued that experiencing one was better and others argued that “living” the experience for yourself was better. I think that both are extremely ignorant and somewhat funny statements. Reading is a mental stimulation or high if you will, it allows your mind to travel to places no one has seen before. It allows you to picture things in a way so unique and relative to your own reality that it is impossible to be recreated. Traveling, or doing something which requires strenuous physical ability provides you with a PHYSICAL uncontrollable adrenaline rush, one which simply reading could never inspire. BOTH are amazing experiences and life is a balance of the two. To label one experience as better than the other seems bizarre to me. That is like saying that life is only mental or only physical. We, ourselves, are designed to be the embodiment of both.