Experience is our best teacher—the question is, what are we learning?
What are we learning, right now? Time (or times like this) is not something just to get through, to some imagined better state in the future. Time is something to be in right now.
If we aren't present to now, our teacher is ineffective, because we aren't actually experiencing this time—we are simply rushing through it (or, just waiting for it to be over).
