You Can't Give What You Don't Have

What is the present time?

What can we call present? A minute ago is past now, as well a second ago.

The past resides only in the memory. And what we call "experience" is a memory organized in a form of a prototype that can be beneficial  if a similar situation occurred.

But what can a man without experience accomplish? Are we meant to be people of trial and error?

One can claim that "reading adds new experiences to your experience",

" you don't have to reinvent the wheel",

"what you are looking for is already there, just go and find it",

"the humans experience is a collective and accumulative experience",

So forth and so on...

But if you read a thousand books that describes the taste of sour grapes without really tasting them then you know nothing about sour grapes.

What we really are is what we are looking for, what we think of ourselves, the image that we have for ourselves in the future. But we are not starting from a plain page, every passing day is leaving its fingerprint. The bad news is; we cannot overwrite it. The good news is; we don't have to start from scratch.

One last thing before you cast away off this page, don't despise what you cannot have.

And for the sake of entertainment, here is one of Aesop's Fables:

The Fox and the Grapes

One afternoon a fox was walking through the forest and spotted a bunch of grapes hanging from over a lofty branch.

"Just the thing to quench my thirst," quoth he.

Taking a few steps back, the fox jumped and just missed the hanging grapes. Again the fox took a few paces back and tried to reach them but still failed.

Finally, giving up, the fox turned up his nose and said, "They're probably sour anyway," and proceeded to walk away.