The recent class discussion brought me back to last semester in which I took the power of words. In this class we talked about Alfred Korzybski idea of the map not being the territory. He created the structural differential which illustrate the different way we process things that are happening around us. I find this very important to our conversation on experience because the structure breaks down the experience as it is and as we see it. The very top of the structure is the world as it is. It is reality, the events in reality and what is constantly happening around us. The next level is the objective level which is how we experience the events of the world as they are happening. This level is pure sensory and is strictly non- verbal.  The next level then becomes the verbal level in which we talk about what we experience at a non-verbal level. As the structure goes on the level after that is talk about the talk of our experience. Each level something is lost. Something is left out at each level because we can't fully experience everything the world has to offer. We can't experience the world as is. Then when we reach a verbal level we can't get across how we feel, we can describe how we feel but another person won't experience that same feeling. For example, if I stub my toe, I can describe to you how it feels, I can compare it to something else so you can know how excruciating the pain is, but still at this verbal level, there is something being left out. Someone mentioned in class that to get across our experiences we are limited to language and I must say that I agree. Language is the most reliable thing to get across an idea or experience unless the person decides to go through something themselves, but then how would you know that my experience and your experience are the same? How do you know if we both stub our toe you would feel the same pain I felt? Maybe you have a higher tolerance for pain than I.  Experience is a topic that is really complex because our experience is never complete. With that said, on the topic of experience, what do you think about the saying that with age comes experience? Is it true? And is there such thing as being experienced in every aspect of life?