Showing posts with label ignorance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ignorance. Show all posts

Friday, May 16, 2014

My little bubble


Dear diary,

   I had that aha moment again. So I remembered I HAVE to write to you. You know how every day we see dozens of new faces (or maybe old faces we don't remember) and we still focus on our little bubble full with desires, needs and emotions and we forget all about the presence of others? It's funny how one random day you just "wake up" realizing you're Not alone in the world and that you're actually Always surrounded by people but somehow, you can't explain how, you're so caught up in your own web that you feel you're living on your own planet. And that day, when you wake up and you look around you see thousands of other webs that interconnect with yours. And when you lift your eyes you see other eyes just as confused as yours. Hmm... so many people, so many life stories, so many webs:) 
   I remember that once, when I was younger I wished I had the power to just look a person in the eyes and know their entire life. But now I know that would be a too heavy burden to bear. Maybe our brain is focused on our own life because it has to preserve it and it knows how to. What good would it do if we constantly noticed the others and we compared ourselves to them? We do that anyhow, but just paying too much attention would be destructive, I think, especially since we probably won't see that person again. 
   So in the end, ignorance truly is bliss. But that doesn't mean we should walk watching our shoes. There's a whole world outside the bubble and maybe one day we'll want to "wake up" and realize there are people out there whose webs can influence us for the better... and we can focus on them. 

   The world beyond our little bubble is a wonderful place and we should never cease to be amazed. 

Awake,
D.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Day 187. Ignorance is bliss


   Of course life can't be all fine and dandy. Maybe it was my destiny to choose a thing that dragged a whole mess with it. If only I had chosen differently in those 10 minutes, maybe we wouldn't be here today. 
   It's sort of a Midsummer night's dream, but not with people falling in love. This one's about people getting mad at each other. And I am caught in the middle. Again. In the end it's all a thing of incomplete information and bad interpretations... like always. 
   I was told I should learn to be ignorant. That would definitely help me since we all know that "ignorance is bliss" but... I can't be like that. I can't care less when it's me in the middle. Unfortunately, that's what working with people can bring. A lot of misunderstandings that you have to fix. Go ahead, see if you can. And in the end don't suffer if it doesn't turn out the way you want. Can you do that? I wish I could.