First hand experiences are better

I find that often I'll avoid taking risks or working to experience things in real life. It's too easy to sit back and read the news, watch tv, or read the internet. Going out and actually experiencing things or working to build things from one's own hands and thoughts creates a different kind of experience.

The thing about the experience that is novel is ambiguity. News is not ambigouous, entertainment is not ambiguous for the most part. It's fed to us in 320x240 NTSC via the boob tube and our perception is limited to what's in focus severely reducing ambiguity. Some people like that. It's like Mc'ds where you can choose meals by the numbers. Religous faiths and creeds, like TV, remove ambiguity in daily life. Some of us can live with ambiguity and even enjoy it like the characters in a Camus story.