The True Value of Experience is When It Touches Your Soul

Then you know that the experience is important

Apoorva Mishra Lochan’s painting, “Forest of Love” touched my soul.

We all have zillions of experiences in life. But how few have truly great value. They are the ones that click with the soul when experiencing — that gives a message that this experience is important.

The first experience of my life that clicked this way was sewing on a machine. It started at age 12 at home, then age 16 as a factory stitcher, then sewing my own designs in the 1960s, to be named Boston’s number one designer, then in my successful design and manufacturing corporation. Sewing experience taught me how a pattern was to be engineered for stitchers in production, and eventually won me engineering design grants from the National Science Foundation.

The experience of process touches the soul because learning is involved — results just satisfy the ego. Lanu Pitan wrote a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson that fits here: “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant”.

Experiencing certain art pieces touch my soul — even when they may not touch others. What touches my soul isn’t socially conditioned, as many pleasurable things are. One of my favorite pieces is Paul Klee.

Paul Klee — My ode, “Reconciliation of the square and the circle”, poetry book, 1983

There are many other experiences in my life that touch my soul. Given here are just some examples.

Thank you Darshak Rana for your prompt on Experiences. And thank you to my readers.