As creatures bounded by the flowing nature of time, man drift by this substance into new periods that can be defined roughly through significant events or changes. The more 'official' ones are probaly deemed by them (for the line is more easily seen) as the opening and closing of different chapters of one's life. Through each of these 'phases', the creature would learn, grow and change with respect to the circumstanstial input into his identity.

More commonly, these 'phases' are named as memories and stored fondly in the depths of a person's recall faculties, rising to the occasion with whiffs of nostialga when a certain memento activates the emotions. The degree of how many times this would happen or the intensity of how it will happen, depends of course, on the amount of change the creature has undergo through the phase. If world views have been shattered, perspectives have been realigned, enlightenments have been discovered and mistakes realised, one would have a strong sense of attachement to the process of that phase.

Much that is appreciated from the phases, are the things that are learnt. A loss always makes a much more powerful impact that a victory, simply because of the knowledge that can be discovered after one has been defeated. The moments of glory pay nothing to you besides a cheap relishing when one admires the dazzle of the trophy and then places it down to go back to his life.

There's also the process that very much appreciated as well. I mean it in a the abstract sense. The process oversees the entire phase as a whole, without giving special attention to particular moments. The moments do count, but the entireity of everything is the true essence of what the whole phase really is about, and that is something that testimonies and sharings can never reveal. As many examples and experiences are related to someone, even when the lessons are drawn out and taught in a more structured style, the very beauty of how the lesson is learnt would be destroyed. In fact, the whole lesson itslef might even be distorted simply because experiences cannot be shared and described in the highest truth, even if the speaker is able to command the language powerfully and honestly.

And I suggest, that this 'experience within the phase' really should be the experience that humans now should respect as a proper 'experience'. The phenomena of chasing after experiences in everything nowadays, from the material to the spiritual, differs greatly from this 'experience in a phase' (EIP) that I speak about. The former invovles more going after excitement, more seeking for feeling and a momentary bliss. Such experiences take after the nature of winning in a victory. They last only in moments, they exist only for an instance when you are in the mode of wanting that experience to happen. Whats more, they are very easily described, just so because it just happens. (Of course, the feeler can always say that the experience is 'beyond words' to describe. But relative to EIP, the complexity and significance of the undescribabilty is so much less)

Again, this refers very strongly back to the matter of our flowing substance, time. When we latch limitations onto the 'experiences' and give them a signficiance because of a momentary feeling, the mildness of the experience becomes something that results in a neglect to the deeper sense, the more intellectual sense by which the experience can actually become. I would say, that the solid defination of experience is really EIP. 'Experience' in everyday context has simply been reduced to reach such a level of 'moments'.

Of course, I am not saying that moments are not significant beings by themsevles, they are. But in EIP, the many moments work together with the whole mechanical thrust of the process, while in 'experiences', moments on their own take the whole stage. In fact, the moments in EIP need to depend on their context so that there is a basis in allowing the moment to be a significant one. The entire process does contribute to allowing that particular moment to earn its rightful prestige as a 'moment' within EIP.

Indeed, I am a bit tired with people claiming 'experiences' to matters, allowing such testimonies to overtake their entire existance in terms of who they are and why they believe in certain views. (Especially, the spiritual matters.) When we understand that theres a substance called 'time', whose properties hold us together deeply while we tumble through it experiencing the whole of life, we should factor in the continutity that this time would mean to the 'experience'. Of course, this would affect the way many things function. And for 'experiences' that consistute the majority of life, dependent on this flowing property of time... I favour EIP.

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