Experience is defined almost entirely by physical experience. That said, there are many experiences that are not physical, yet they can and often do change our behavior and knowledge.
I’d like to call these “relatively durable” because I would argue that most experiences have a significant impact on our behavior and knowledge. This is something we’re going to explore more in the future.
We can think of these physical experiences to be the result of a large event, whether it be the death of a loved one, a serious physical injury, or the death of a pet. These events can cause us to have an altered sense of time and space, as well as a sense of self. These changes in our sense of self can have profound and lasting effects on our behavior.
For the most part, all of these experiences are present as our experiences, but we can get into ways to change our thinking, behavior, and sense of time.
The term “metamorphosis” was coined to describe the mental transformation of a person from one form of life to another. It comes from the Greek word metapher (meaning “change” or “transformation”), and the Latin metamorphosis (“to turn into”). It is also the Greek word for transformation, and the Latin word for change.
This quote from The Myth behind the Life, by Carl Jung, sums it up nicely: “The most important change in the mind of every individual is the first one that occurs in childhood.” This is pretty much the same old story, right? We get bored with the same things and change our minds and beliefs. Then we get older and experience the world differently. Then we change our minds and beliefs again. Then we have kids in the middle and the cycle continues.
The biggest change in the mind of every individual is that we, as humans, are born with the potential/ability to change our minds and beliefs. So how do we become more like the people we’ve grown up with? We get bored with the same things, we change our minds, we come up with new ideas, and so forth. When we are young, we’re not that creative and are forced to follow the herd.
This is where the problem becomes very real. The same things that make us happy in life don’t allow us to be happy in a given situation. The same things that make us sad in life don’t allow us to be sad in a given situation. All of this leads to our natural inclination to be what we are not. It’s like an itch that refuses to go away. It becomes your primary source of frustration and rage.
Being a teenager, I often tried to break free of my parents and go play videogames. It didn’t really work. This is another problem that comes with being a teenager. Being forced to act as a unit is not a good way to learn. What was going to be a good way to learn was to be a part of a group. I remember the first time I tried to play with friends. I was sitting there and all of a sudden, I was crying.
This is a very serious problem that comes with being a teenager. For a long time, I thought it was just a matter of what was happening and where I was going. I decided I could go play videogames for fun. I didn’t want to get into any sort of conflict with my friends. I figured that would allow me to get away with it.
