But even if I want to sometimes be ignorant of the problems, it becomes even more difficult to ignore these things as you grow older. Plus, "becoming older" now makes you have reason on your side-- (or so we hope, yes?) -- yet that makes everything just a tad bit more complex and tedious.
So if I want to ignore a problem, an issue, or a decision, I can't just leave it up to my parents anymore. My opinion has to make sense, I have to be aware of my surroundings and of the people around me-- because if I mess up-- it'll now be on my record of life, not my parents.
Yes.... ignorance is bliss at times, but it continues to be ignorant. Knowing doesn't always help-- yet it is still knowledge. Let's face it. We'll never be satisfied.
1 said miss mademoiselle:
Interesting little philosophical post. I think you gain coherency as you continue on with the post.
You are so right that ignorance can be bliss sometimes, and about growing up. Growing up, you become responsible for your actions and like you said, must support your arguments. It's tough, it's annoying, and downright sucks sometimes.
I miss being a kid! But, it happens and we can't stop time, so we gotta live with it. I'm glad you're thinking on it and it sounds like you've learned a lot!
And it is nice, once you've accomplished something, to be able to sit back and say "I did it." Or even just to look back at your old self, and then see yourself now and go, "wow, look at how much more mature and responsible I am," and see how you handle things better now.
And yes, this is the material world, we will never be satisfied. We want more of some things and less of others. We want ignorance in so many things - from responsibility, from Krishna, etcetera. Sorry to bring religion in, but...I just had that thought. ^^;
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