Experience - Own Truth

You have to undergo it in order to have it. I remember reading somewheere that life will give you the same lessons again and again till you learn from it.

If I have gone through something and I tell you the result of it, it won't become your experience till you go through the similar event yourself. Any event told by anybody and an event you have gone through will generate your own experience and hence generate confidence. Time has its own way of explaining things and this is where our elders are ahead of us. (The more aware you are, the more you gain from their words). But it also depends on how rich they have made their experience, how much they have grasped from it, how RIGHT what they have gathered is. The more you gather, richer the experience becomes and more you will fetch out of it. So deeper the experience, more competent you become.( And hey! isn't that what you want?) Also here you can also surpass your elders if you have a richer experience of the same event. So be slow, calm, conscious & open to absorb whatever situation life throws at you.