The Stuff that is not the Actual Stuff

So recently I have felt that things are not as good as they should be in some way or other. Actually I have always felt this but recently I have noticed in more in a particular way. Even more recently, as in, last night during a dream and for the past day or two, I have come to begin to realize something about this issue. I am starting to see that a thing, like an activity or an object is more valuable and more interesting to experiance when it is surrounded by something else. I think an example of this would be the event of going to a movie with a friend. One option is to simply go to the movie and the other is to enrich the experiance by adding little things to it. For instance going with a few friends and buying candy or some other value adding experiance option. Now this is quite strange because I am not at all opposed to doing things the simple and easy way, for instance I go to movies by my self about once every two months. Which is about one time out of twelve. However I think that this noise adding value notion can really make or break an experience. In the example of a class discussion or a lecture. The package is so much more valuable than the words that are being said or any other indevidual aspect of the experience.

At the moment I think this sounds a bit like somone who has never had friends meeting someone for the first time, but it is not. I think in reality this could be an interesting observation but I have not had a chance to understand it yet. I think in essence I am starting to believe that the value in any experience is the extra stuff that is not usually discussed, the rigmarole and the noise.

I would really love comments if anyone actually knows what I am struggling to understand.