Experience tells me that although you can’t judge a book by its cover when the first page reads well it certainly can be the harbinger that the succeeding narrative might have the ethereal power I long for. I have been at it long enough to know that when it begins badly it probably doesn’t take a soothsayer to predict a left turn is not magically going to turn into a right one.
What does all this mean? It’s just that when you experience things for the first time even though you’ve done it before it doesn’t have to be the same as last time or at any other time. When I find myself pinching my epidermis and am totally present in each moment then not only does peace reign in my overtime brain but also the self-talk switch is off. I fall asleep at the drop of a hat and when I wake up I know I’m not dreaming.
Even repetitive events are new experiences . Time colors the event differently. That compounded with changes in human nature make experiential activities different in themselves. "Everything old is new again" the second, or third or more time around
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