Is it normal that most of my judgments and ideas come from observation?

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Many people say things like "Trust me. I've been there." or "Oh yeah been there don that." which shows they know what they're talking about due to experience. However, I only know things from observation..and some experience.. but I haven't really actually experienced much. I can't really tell people to trust me when I give them advice because the reality is I only know most of what I know from watching friends and family going through these experiences or reading it somewhere. Is this normal? Should I try to experience more? It's not like I feel like I'm missing out. I really don't. But what do you think?

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  • carnage53
    12 years ago

    Yeah most advices come from experience, but experience is gained in many ways and one of them is observation, look at it this way:

    You know a couple x and y both of them are your friends actually best friends and they tell you everything , and they broke up some day and they both tell you their sides, know you have the experience of both sides ( x and y ), if you were the x you would know only your side of the story :D... hope you get my analogy.

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  • debpratim.ghosh
    12 years ago

    Obviously this is the most basic way of judging.. . . . .

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  • Neo.T
    12 years ago

    What I think is that most of society today is based on observation , We learn from our errors in witch we observe what has gone wrong to learn from our errors , so basically what i am saying is that your are normal and you have nothing to worry about .

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  • Alison89
    12 years ago

    Isn't "Trust me. I know what I'm talking about," pretty high up there for famous last words? To me, this always sounds like "Do it my way, not your way."

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  • Shackleford96
    12 years ago

    People still say "been there done that?"

    Wow.

    Yes, it is normal what you are saying.

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