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The dynamicity of our human life makes us truly creative and always on the go for new realities in each stage of that same life.

But if life is dynamic, how is it that we encounter the same situations in life? Or as Gabriel Marcel put it: ‘the chain of everyday habits’? How come in life there are certain practices, action, and things that we cannot change, and much more, they must be necessarily present? Personally, how come that everyday, I wake up take a bath, eat breakfast, study, work, pray, eat again , sleep for another day, then wake up...? How come I find monotony in life?

Yes, it’s true. In every exigency of human life, monotony seems to be inseparable. But monotony of life has got something especial for each day of life. I believe that in the externality of the monotonous schedule, there is a particular newness of experience behind; which helps the individual in building for the development of the dignity of his own existence. Every day is a new height to be scaled. But as we go on scaling and scaling, which seems for us a monotony of life, we are not aware that we go up higher and higher. Life is compared to the wheels of a car. They revolve and revolve, but they cover and cover a distance.

What is this thing which is always new each moment in our life? I call this thing, ‘experience’. The experience we have from yesterday gives us a lesson to learn for another stage of our life; lessons which continually build up the growth of our being human.

Sad to say, what one learned in the other day cannot come again with a perfect similarity of what one experienced now. Each of us, therefore, ought to savor this one and unique experience we have, and we must be sure that it is not wasted by letting it pass away from our life. We ought to learn something from that. For the greater we nurture and treasure that experience, the greater it will bring us good for our holistic growth. It’s very unfortunate, though, to consider that we do not use our capacity to the full, and those experiences which could give better service for other people, are just thrown into the garbage.

It is not the time we actually wasted, but it’s the opportunity that our experience could give. Why are there people we consider great men and women in history? These are the people who used well what they have - their moment to moment experiences. They did not throw them into the air, but they use them to the full.