i agree that Character-Building Experience can be found by learning about universe as it majestic compared to us, it's a realization about who we are within the universe mades we conscious of how precious our life is.

sadly.
in the present, the character building experience for people in this modern era mostly determined by how theirs social media's interact within smartphones, worried about how the crowd react to his/her thought by comparing how many 'likes' we have everyday.... never to realise how short our lives compare to time within cosmic calendar by try to pleased everyone but not improving ourselves.