Ignorance

They say ignorance is bliss. Why is that? Because not knowing better means you don’t have to feel guilty? Because you think you can do something stupid and not care about the consequences of your actions, and just blame it on “lack of information”? You do realize that another term for “lack of information” is lack of knowledge, or lack of intelligence right? Didn’t think about that one did you? Oh, I guess that’s just a lack of information on your part huh? I guess that’s what makes ignorance so bliss. It’s a sad shame when our people of today make mistakes, claim ignorance, and are proud of it. To some, it would be the same as making a mistake, and “blaming it on the alcohol”. Now that would make more sense, considering that alcohol can easily affect your judgment. However, there still is a point in which we should be taking responsibility of our actions, regardless of how big or small the mistake was, what the consequences are, or the reason we made our mistake to begin with.

Question though, what makes us do this? Who teaches this type of behavior? Movies, tv, parents, teachers at school? I believe its everywhere. Its all over the media. You see it on a constant basis on reality tv shows, which are designed to follow peoples everyday lives. We tend to do exactly that… follow. These days, it is the trendy thing to follow what someone else does, if it is accepted and followed by your peers. But are we following the statement makers or are we following the followers? Does it really matter? You see it in the movies. When someone gets arrested, whether they are guilty or not, they say they don’t know anything. Believe it or not, that is one thing from the movies that happens in reality as well.

The point is, its everywhere. However, it doesn’t help us any. We think it does because we think its useful to get out of a jam. Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn’t. Even if it does, it is only short term, and doesn’t protect us in the long run. Instead it just helps us to find another sneaky solution to solve our problem, which places us at an even higher risk of severe consequences of our actions. We can actually commit a nasty crime and as long as we claim ignorance to some part of the crime or information prior to the crime, we are home free. So we actually enjoy making ourselves look and feel stupid. Does that make us smart or ignorant?

In the past we used to strive for knowledge, to be intelligent. Now we treat it like its so out of style, that we have to do something different… find a new trend. So let’s FOLLOW what everyone else does and create a new style. A style that follower’s will follow. Well we can’t just get smarter, because that would defeat the purpose of changing our style. So let’s just get stupid, because its fun to be dumb. You get to do things without thinking, so you don’t have to care about anything. And the best part of all, you get to think that the only way to have more fun is to be even more stupid, because being stupid is being smart. Again, I ask you, does that make us smart or ignorant? Here’s a hint: “If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t there more happy people in the world?” -Stephen Fry

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Relationships

Women, how is it that you can complain that “good men are like parking spaces, all the good ones are taken, or gay”, but yet in still when you have that good man in front of you, your too blind to see it? You want to be in a good relationship with a good man, but you continue to play around with boys, allowing them to reproduce and introduce new drama into your lives. You thrive for the swag, drool over the fad, lust over the bad boy attitude. You even buy into the sweet things he says and does, to and for you, like a good man does. Then you realize he is not what you thought. Its fake! He’s fake! Next thing you know, you meet a real decent man and you don’t trust him because the same nice things he says and does, were the same nice things the last guy said and did. So you push your golden dream away, throw it in the trash, cast it away, out to sea. Fake men, also known as boys, steal from real men so they appear to be good men long enough to get what they want from you, without ever having given you anything you want. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. Problem is, so many of them, dedicate so much time to it, that they actually begin to believe it themselves, and think they really are good men. Women, you have to wake up and learn to pay attention to your mind, and not your heart… because your heart can steer you on the wrong course, following what attracts it, without any knowledge or background of what its pursuing. Just as justice is blind, Love is also blind. Hence why you should never follow your heart when it is following something your mind is too ignorant to understand.


The Truth B Told,

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