What say you?

kopiosatu SG

Better to think and live life aware albeit slightly unhappy, than to breeze through life happy and totally ignorant.

xavier1979 SG

I guess you mean being practical and realistic about life, and not blissfully ignoring everything and taking it easy, rite?

kopiosatu SG

i guess so. cuz i was mentioning in my blog about the things i ponder about. i concluded that i think too much.

then a friend posted this comment.

so are people happier being blissfully ignorant? or is it better to think and be filled with some disappointment?

BaByBoY SG

number 2

the Bear SG

if you are ignorant, would you know you are ignorant?

what is scary are the purposely ignorant people... they delude themselves..

OCEANOS SG

Merry Meet Kopiosatu,

Well If one do not set too much expectations in whatever they do, there will not be much disappointments at all, Life would definitely be happier. Ignorance can be a bliss however its not a Must. You can still be totally aware & Be Happy. Its just a thin veil between Being Happy & Being Sad, everything in Life lies in the choice one makes, the choice is always yours. Why ponder over the past, when we are moving forward every other day. Have some thoughts about it...

Blessed Be,
Oceanos

kopiosatu SG

well, taking bear's comment. how do the ignorant know they are ignorant?

but then, they're leading a blissfully ignorant life without worries or problems.

is that the way to lead one's life?

oh damn, i'm thinking too much again.

the Bear SG

yeah... that's what i mean.. they would be ignorantly happy..

however, we cannot strive to be like them because we would be deluding ourselves that we are ignorant... and like most fakery, the "happiness" would be fake too...

so, do what you can, do the best you can.. with that, you can be free of most worry and somewhere in there, lies happiness Wink

xavier1979 SG

"Think smart, act blur, live longer."

Heard this somewhere.

We got to consider things from all perspectives. Only when we see things in whole, we can then choose to ignore those views which are not useful in our daily affairs and are not life-affecting. That way, we can live a life more suited to our desires and yet not bogged down by too many worries.

My 2 cents' worth. Mr. Green

kopiosatu SG

life was so much simpler as a child.

adults just make it complicated. Neutral

the Bear SG

but with the "think smart, act blur" people, there requires something... which i think kopi will not have..

that is a total lack or disregard for his conscience...

kopiosatu SG

haha, today i was sitting through a health seminar.

the speaker said 'good people can't sleep well, because they will worry about others and their wellbeing, bad people can sleep very well. because they have no conscience."

the Bear SG

strangely, no...

the ones with the conscience will sleep well because they have done all they could..

the ones without, ultimately will be plagued by their own evil as they would start thinking the worse about everyone, causing paranoia and they will be under severe pressures of their own making Wink