Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment

Today, while I was checking the news feed on my facebook account, I liked a quote put by my boss, a very experienced and classy human, which reads as - Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. This quote took me to deep thoughts and I decided to write a post on this.
Now, tell me friends, we keep on encountering some experience or other in life, but have we ever noticed that our maturity is always one leg below every new experience? What is the purpose of life’s experiences? Well, I believe it is to give us maturity, and with each experience it is not just the bar of our maturity which gets raised a little, but also, the bar of challenges we face gets raised. Invariably, goes the upward growth bar of life.
It is really immaterial how knowledgeable we are and we become, or how much of life we have seen, or if we are the best in whatever we do – even if we are an encyclopedia on life and human psychology…. A fall, a trip , a slump is always round the corner. Life always intrudes and obstruct the flow, the rhythm….
Isnt a failure in the tenth standard higher than a pass in eighth standard? A just miss in an attempt to scale Mount Everest is still a leg higher than making it to the top of the local hill. A failure in decoding 100th burst of communication data is higher than decoding previous bursts with acceptable accuracy. Hence, we can conclude that higher the maturity, the higher the challenge. And that’s how life modulates man.
Life’s journey shouldn’t be taken as a journey of going two steps forward and one step backwards. Have you ever thought why it happens in life? I believe the sole culprit of such kind of a life is lack of awareness… lack of learning from his/her experiences. A man whose awareness coaches him to learn from every experience lives as though he is on a roller coaster. He rises to fall and falls to rise… but the rise after every fall is even higher (I have experienced it in my personal as well as professional life).. And hence, both his maturity and the level of his challenges are raised to next higher leg.
Now let us dissect the heading of the post – What is the reason for your success? “Good decisions” and what enables you to make good decisions? “Life’s experiences.” How do you gain life’s experiences? “Bad decisions”
On the roller coaster of life’s experiences, I keep growing experience by experience. Every experience either gives me what I want, or it gives me the awareness – why I didn’t get what I want.
The next time a setback disturbs our centeredness…. Just remember…. Life has sent a teacher, disguised as experience, to help raise the bars of our maturity. Let our awareness help us to not only mature out of that experience, but also regain our centeredness. Get ready for a higher challenge.

We mortals have to fall to rise…. The blessing being that we always rise a little higher.