How many "firsts" have you experienced in your life?
The first time you broke a bone but forced yourself to stand back up;
The first time you panicked after coming down with chickenpox;
The first time you cried for someone who had left;
The first time you were moved to tears by some words of life advice.
But these were all immature, misguided ways of coping.
By the "second time," though, everything went much better. Because you had experience and knowledge.
So why should we have to experience every "first" over and over again, billions upon billions of times?
