"Since I experienced [insert trauma here], I will not REST until evildoers feel my wrath," the antihero says.
It's been a while since I experienced the wonder of discovery and the innocent, naive conviction that music really could change a person's life, because a band's music reached me on a profound, emotional level.
The current storyline of Helen's abuse by her husband Rob can certainly be difficult to listen to at times, or in my case to read, since I experience what the listener hears when I first get the scripts prior to recording.
Since I have experienced the most profound breakup of my life, at the cusp of 60, I have been awakening to a deeper part of myself.
In fact, I've seen something new in me ever since I have experienced Islamophobia, and that is a certain softening up to Islam of my ancestors.That very patriarchal Islam that I criticized so much, that I shed, that I fled is not something about which, I would normally feel defensive.
One soldier, who had fought for 13 consecutive months in Korea, stated of his single nightmare attack: "Never, before or since, have I experienced the fear of that night".
Never before, and never since, have I experienced disdain of this sort.
Since I have already experienced living in a foreign country (I spent nearly 4 years working in Japan before returning to Canada for graduate school), I viewed the possibility of settling in Singapore for a few years as an exciting challenge and opportunity both for personal and career development.
"All I will say is that when it started falling apart I experienced the worst despair and anguish that I have experienced since the death of my father, and I didn't understand why it was happening.
Taking a break used to be something I didn't think of as being productive, but since I've experienced how much better I feel when I do take some 'me-time', it's much harder to skip it as "non-productive".
It had been years since I had experienced one in Iraq.
