Experience

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C. S. Lewis

Life is full of experiences. We all know that. I'd rather be kicked in the face with a hard experience and learn something from it, than to sit at a desk reading about it. I'd much rather have a broken heart or broken bone from someone or doing something, than watching someone go through it. I learn from my person experiences. Some lessons I have to re-learn multiple times through different experiences. But I still learn something. Whether it was good or bad, I still learn every day from a new experience.