Coleridge wrote something....

.....of a long poem - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.  (I can remember wading through it when I was at school.)  Most people remember - water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink...   Amazing when you consider how much there is to that poem, and all that it holds.  When it was written - a short while before the advent of soap operas - people had little else to do on a night than read such epics to each other.

Now, we are all like the mariner. Information everywhere, but precious little that is of much use to us. 

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. (Eckhart Tolle)