blazeofglory
06-09-2009, 06:17 AM
There is a cliché that ignorance is bliss. Indeed it is bliss. Knowledge, power, wealth and happiness are attributes that are mostly mutually exclusive. We think by being powerful, owning a tall building and very expensive cars, marrying a beautiful girl and working for a big office we can achieve happiness.
Today particularly in the age of recession we came to realize that excess greed does not pacify our minds. Therefore accumulation of a mass of wealth also does not reduce our stress levels.
If we closely study behavioral patterns in developing countries we will come across facts that are likely to support this statement in point of fact. I came from an agrarian community and now settled in a very modern and sophisticated social setup living a life of complexity and sophistication. I have technology at my command, home gadgets, and many deluxe, flashy and glitzy things. Yet every second is not without stresses. There is more sense of insecurity and of course impoverishment.
Of course, we see in a world of deficiency amidst stacks of wealth; regality and profuseness are like flashes, and they are not things that accompany you throughout life. I am not an escapist at all. I am not pessimistically inclined in life.
Yet I choose the middle path. For excessive greed leads to ruin. Excessive greed and desire makes us unfortified. Too much knowledge leads to confusion and gives us an air of uncertainty as a mater of fact.
Of course the life lived in a village is relatively unexciting, but it is not very straining and nerve-racking.
Acquisition of knowledge may enlighten you and illumine your path to prosperity, widen your horizon, and social status. But you will lose your capacity for being happy, and this endorses the fact that ignorance is bliss oftentimes if not always.
Today particularly in the age of recession we came to realize that excess greed does not pacify our minds. Therefore accumulation of a mass of wealth also does not reduce our stress levels.
If we closely study behavioral patterns in developing countries we will come across facts that are likely to support this statement in point of fact. I came from an agrarian community and now settled in a very modern and sophisticated social setup living a life of complexity and sophistication. I have technology at my command, home gadgets, and many deluxe, flashy and glitzy things. Yet every second is not without stresses. There is more sense of insecurity and of course impoverishment.
Of course, we see in a world of deficiency amidst stacks of wealth; regality and profuseness are like flashes, and they are not things that accompany you throughout life. I am not an escapist at all. I am not pessimistically inclined in life.
Yet I choose the middle path. For excessive greed leads to ruin. Excessive greed and desire makes us unfortified. Too much knowledge leads to confusion and gives us an air of uncertainty as a mater of fact.
Of course the life lived in a village is relatively unexciting, but it is not very straining and nerve-racking.
Acquisition of knowledge may enlighten you and illumine your path to prosperity, widen your horizon, and social status. But you will lose your capacity for being happy, and this endorses the fact that ignorance is bliss oftentimes if not always.