Experience Is Not About How Long You Lived — But How Awake You Lived
People think the more years you live, the wiser you become.
If that was true, by now humanity should be enlightened — or at least sane.
Look around —
hospitals are fuller, stress is higher, confusion is louder. So clearly, age is not working.
We made one dangerous assumption:
Time = experience.
No.
Time = wrinkles.
Someone told me,
“But he has forty years of experience!”
I asked,
“Are you sure?
Or did he repeat the same one year forty times?”
Just breathing for many years is not experience.
Trees have been here far longer than you —
shall we now ask them to advise our health system?
A mango becomes sweet with time.
A human becomes bitter if time passes without perception. People think experience makes you wise. It does not. Life happens to everyone —but only those who see clearly grow. Without right perception, experience can distort you, traumatize you, make you fearful, bitter, or delusional. Perception determines whether experience becomes wisdom or suffering.
Some live one year consciously and transform.
Some live eighty years and sleep through life —
experts at surviving, not living.
Two people can go through the same moment —
one grows, one breaks, one wakes up, one collapses. Same world, different inner world.
Because experience is not what happens to you —
it is what awakens in you.
Participant Question
“But Parth, when we go to a doctor, should we not see how many years of experience he has?
How else do we know his capability?”
Answer
Experience does matter —
but only conscious experience counts.
Unconscious experiences are just repetitions…
Just collecting years does not mature you.
Just collecting patients does not make you perceptive.
When you meet a doctor — or any human —
don’t count years like they are qualifications.
Age only proves the body has been around.
It does not prove the being has woken up.
Before us, generations of doctors served humanity.
If time automatically brought wisdom,
hospitals today would be empty and pharmacies would be museums.
But what do we see?
Medicine is advanced —
yet health is still a business, not a natural state.
So clearly, time did not teach enough.
Real experience does not come from the clock —
it comes from clarity, presence, perception.
So what should we look for in a Doctor?
Not grey hair.
Not years on a certificate.
Not confidence in voice or fancy words.
Look for this:
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Stillness without stiffness
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Clarity without arrogance
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Listening without rushing
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Understanding without judgement
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Response without reaction
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Presence that calms, before prescription begins
When someone truly sees,
their very presence heals more than their prescription.
Such a person doesn’t “practice medicine” —
they become medicine.
Remember
Time matures the body.
Awareness matures the human.
Some count years.
Some count insights.
Those who count insights — evolve.
So don’t ask,
“How long has he practiced?”
Ask,
“How deeply does he see?”
Because in the end —
Perception is experience.
Awareness is wisdom.
Wakefulness is life.


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