Huxley recalls his childhood and what he did with himself from experiencing it. He also takes into perspective all the hard work he has done up unto this point of time. He became friends with other authors and perhaps shared ideas with him. He kept up with the family name and even have a few others his last. “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him” (Web). Take Huxley as an example, he went through many tragic experiences. But you know what he did with those, create a fictional world based off of them and made money. People often believe your experience is what you have gone through in the past. But, as said by Huxley, that is not entirely true. Your experience is what you have chosen to take from your past. You can learn from experiences by acting differently when a similar event occurs. Experiences are what make you your own self. And what you do with those experiences is what makes you a better person in the universe. Huxley thought a better, happier him included him being drugged up on some pill that made the world seem better. …show more content…
He knew that he himself could not change the world, and the only person that he could in fact change was himself. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self” (web). As a human being, you cannot control the uncontrollable. Just as Huxley could not control the infection in his eye, nor the fact that it caused him to lose sight. Humans can not even control time, and we created the idea of keeping track of it. You can not force people to be better, and you certainly can not change whatever happened to them that made them that way. The only thing you can do is control and better yourself. You know a our own person what you do not like about yourself and what makes you unlikeable. It is solely up to your own self to become the better