Lived-experience is the expression of the demand to make life meaningful. To see lived-experience as materials for creating and developing. Lived-experience is the outcome of processes of devotion and digestion, processes of passion and work. It strives to group the moments of life into stories, into something that can be internalized and used, shared and passed on.

One can chase opportunities and miss the experience, and one can allow habit and routine – the desperate attempt to fit in – obscure the moments in which life can become an experience. Unlike how we organize life as an attraction, looking for ready-made, safe, and indulgent experiences, the purpose of lived-experience is to come into contact with life, and it is always organized within the context of direct presence and excess and power. From a place of honesty.

Lived-experience spares us of the drama that comes with the awareness of the finitude of human existence, spares us of the sentimentality generated by the experience of incongruity and tragic split between the awareness of things and things.

Lived-experience is beyond considerations of prerequisites, and indicates a mode of unity between myself and things. In that sense, lived-experience can be insufferable, forced, unwelcome. Lived-experience places us as having an interest in life. Being devoted to life. When life goes by, lived-experience indicates the personal organization of encounter and connection and intimacy with reality. And it is an opportunity to reveal the feeling and conscious self.

Live-experience is what gives time meaning.