Whenever we look at our life experiences – be it in the personal or professional domain, be it our most intimate or the most practical of the experiences – we can observe and clearly distinguish that our experience has two parts to it. One, that of the content or the matter of the experience and the other is that of its essence.
When we are completely indulged in getting the experience, we tend to miss these two sides. The first one – the content or the matter is the physicality of and around the experience. It is tangible, and something that we can hold onto. The second is the meta – the intangible. Since its easier to hold the first, we often forget to look at the second. It is perhaps why we don't often distinguish or acknowledge the two faces of the experience.
To recreate or relive an experience, we often tend to focus on the prior – the tangible one. Take for instance a first travel experience of a particular place. When, after years, we visit that place again to relive that moment, often, we don't feel the same as it did the first time. We are so invested in weaving a story in our head of the first time that we completely neglect its essence.
It is only when we are able to detach from the tangibility of the experience is when we can look at it from a distance. That distance gives a different perspective, and a chance to relook our own experience in its closer sense while actually maintaining that distance. Experience is in the essence than the matter. And, whenever we are able to capture and relive the essence, a new creation emerges. We have very powerful access to the experience. There is vividness, there is aliveness.
Experience is in the essence than the matter. And, whenever we are able to capture and relive the essence, a new creation emerges.
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