"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle"

I don't really know of any one best experience of my life. There have been so many incredible, miraculous, things to happen in my life. However, there are a couple of experiences that stand out as being incredible. One of them is the first roller coaster I ever rode: the Incredible Hulk in Universal Studios, Orlando.

As I understood roller coasters, and as I still do, roller coasters will go up this giant slope, and then send you over the edge at great speed. The Hulk prefers to send you into an apparently normal sloping lift, but then instead launches you out of the tube, straight into a loop 200 feet in the sky.

"I know not with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."

The whole prospect of the apocalypse is fascinating to me. Stories of the people that experience the event and life after the "end of the world", or really the end of modern human civilization, are so incredible; there are an endless variety of causes for the end, but all these stories regard those stronger than 99% of the population, those stronger than society itself - the ones that survive. As such, in general my favorite stories are all of the people that exist to prevent the apocalypse, survive the apocalypse, or live in the aftermath of it.

One of my favorite movies is Terminator 2, where the apocalyptic arrival of self-aware supercomputers starts a war, beginning with nuclear judgement day and continuing with the rule of the earth's surface by robots and the hiding of the now-refugee humans throughout barren wastelands, and their defiant fight to rid the earth of its new kings; sparking the need for time-travelling assassins and guardians and whatnot.

My favorite book is World War Z by Max Brooks. It involves the sudden outbreak of zombies and the apparent apocalypse: the stories all revolve around various survivors, from all places and cultures as they survive the zombie outbreak and eventually prevent the total destruction of society as they drive back the zombie outbreak.