The book written by HG Wells is a classic. Not very attractive by today's standard, but a true classic. Story line was simple, punch line tremendous. The ending can be quite anti-climax of you are looking for some spetacular reversal on the aliens by the humans, liberation from oppression etc. But the ending was of simplicity and yet had a tremendous significance.
But life is like that isn't it? The Chinese have a saying, "I've eaten more salt than you have rice." At the heart of that idiom as we call it is experience. The interesting about experience is that its a very personal commodity, it not common per se because its always unique. Its personalized and its yours. No one can take it from you, it'll stick to you till you die. We have earned that right, because we went through it. With blood and sweat (I exaggerate but you know what I mean).
Like any commodity, experience is something you need to use so that you can get something out of it. There is no such thing as a bad or lousy experience, all experience is good. But it's only good if we learn from it, if we don't, then its just a wasted resource. So really, its a matter of the attitude that we take with reagrds to the things we go through. Do we come out stronger, or do we come out of it unchanged, unlearned? You decide.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana)
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