‘Ignorance is bliss’ has it’s merits. Ignorance of the blissful, unknowing category, does have it’s place in the world around us. I should know, I have a list of completely acceptable, self appointed, ignorance will keep me sane items.
Things like:
I don’t WANT to read nor listen to the news, about some study on how many microscopic bed bugs reside in my bed. I prefer going to bed at night on what looks and feels like crisp clean bedsheets, hospital sterile clean. I’d rather NOT know I’m possibly laying in a colony of bugs that are pissed off I’m squishing the roadways and suburbs they constructed during the day. Clearly, ignorance is sleeping bliss here.
I do not, repeat,do not, want to know if I’m about to uncover ((shudder)) worms when I’m trying to flex my green thumb. I’m always prepared for an unwarranted attack from those monstrous (choke) worms, but I don’t WANT to know when it’s coming. I prefer to play ignorant to the possibility and tempt the dangers commonly found in gardening. Since ((dry heave)) worms are my mortal enemy, ignorance of exact location is my only security blanket. (By the way, in case you feel the instant urge to be cute here, you have no idea what sort of phobia you are dealing with. Fanatical. Resist the worm jokes, descriptions or anything else that springs to your brilliant mind, mainly I’m talking to you boyzz! RESIST!)
I have no interest in knowing what the calorie count of a big fat slice of cheese cake, complete with toppings amounts too…..It can be 500 calories, or 5,000, I simply do not care. I want to enjoy the entire culinary delight without imagining each individual calorie parading through my body to take up residence on my ass. Calorie knowledge is a clear violation of the enjoyment of food enactment and therefore my education of calories will remain in the ignorance is yummy category.
I do not appreciate when someone says, “We need to talk, but I don’t have time right now.” You know, that REALLY rattles my mental imagination levels. Why say anything at all…when you could just call later and spill the beans? I’m already situation creative as it is, I don’t need lag time and several hours to think before the big reveal. By the time you call to tell me you got a new purse yesterday, I will have already imagined you or someone in your family is dying, or I’m dying and just didn’t realize it, or your boyfriend is cheating on you, or you’ve decided you wanted to be a stripper on the weekends. On this note, if it’s important, and you want to tell me, do it then, or say nothing until you can give full disclosure. Let me remain in a cloud of ignorance is unimaginative, uncreative, peaceful…. Ignorance does not fuel rampant creative movies in thy head. Shhh until your ready to spring the details.
The concept of ignorance is bliss, allows for one to be perfectly happy without knowing certain things. I could probably name 100 things I’m extremely happy NOT knowing the ins and outs of, turning a blind eye, keeping my safety bubble inflated and bug free. I imagine everyone that visits this page could name off a few items they like to keep in their ‘ignorance is bliss’ column, right???
Now, to every good, there is a bad and “Ignorance is bliss” has also been an unacceptable excuse for turning the other cheek to things no person should be ignorant about. Despite all the beauty this world delights us with, there is also the ugly and it is our responsibility to open our eyes, seek knowledge, take a stand and show intolerance to certain ignorance.
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