Yes.
Ignorance is bliss!
There is so much freedom in not knowing any more than we do.
Life is exactly like you say it is.
When you know more, you are accountable for more.
When you do not know there is more, you are not required to do more.
What you are doing works, and no matter what is going on, even if it does not make you feel good, it is okay, because it is what it is.
It is what it was yesterday, and you can count on life being the same tomorrow.
Granted, nothing is ever really the same from day to day, or even from minute to minute, but it is basically the same when what you know is what you know.
There is predictability and a sense of stability.
We develop coping mechanisms for the turbulence that shows up.
The rough patches.
It sounds like the movie “Groundhog Day” where you wake up living the same exact thing over, and over, and over again, down to the smallest detail.
But that’s okay.
It is okay because you do not know there is any thing else.
Life lived in a rut that you can’t see, so it doesn’t matter.
It is even a good life.
Things are going well.
What happens in the movie “Groundhog Day” is that a man wakes up!
He wakes up every day and life is exactly the same as it was yesterday.
To put it in context, the man was somewhat of an asshole before waking up on this morning.
He wanted what he wanted, how he wanted it, and nothing, or nobody else, mattered.
So he goes through this first day of awakening, and sees the sameness in every person, situation and event.
Kind of weird.
He quickly realizes no one else is aware that nothing, not even the day on the calendar has changed.
Being the person he has always been, he sees opportunity to take advantage.
It is also somewhat predictable that knowing something someone else does not know, makes it easy to take advantage of those who do not share your knowledge.
What a shame.
It is true.
It is also true that the abuse of knowledge is dangerous when you use that power to manipulate people, situations and events.
It is an unfair advantage.
Sort of a home court advantage.
This can seem okay to you for while if you are completely heartless.
In this movie, the man had been looking for something more in his life.
Life was okay, but he could feel something was missing.
He was not even aware that he was looking for something more.
It was just time for his awakening.
Something just didn’t feel right to him.
He felt like he should have had more.
He should have been more.
But he had no idea what any of it meant.
Life, the Universe, God, have many ways to wake you up, for your own good.
Of course in this move, a love interest shows up.
Developing feelings for someone else, especially someone who cares about others, can cause a callous, insensitive, non-caring person to begin to start asking himself, or herself, some new questions.
It allows this person to start seeing who, and how they have been living, behaving, and treating other people.
This character slowly, but sure, begins seeing the life he had been living was exactly the reason why he had been having those feelings of discontent, like something had been missing from his life.
There is a meaningness to life that comes with genuinely caring for other people, and being helpful rather than being a hindrance, and hurtful, to others.
Life is just better.
Sweeter.
Whether you believe it or not, we are our brother’s, and our sister’s keeper.
When you know this, life has purpose.
There is meaning.
You feel good doing, and being good for others and yourself.
He, himself, begins changing who he is day, by day, among the sameness, and starts, over time, to value the people, situations and events in the midst of the sameness, because now, for him, nothing is the same.
He becomes that person who is more, and life becomes more to, and for him.
Yes!
He even gets the girl, because now he is worthy of the best life has to offer him.
So yes, ignorance is bliss, but life is so much better when you have eyes to see.
When you know better, you do better.
P.S.
Watch the movie “Groundhog Day” starring Tom Hanks. I can almost guarantee you will love it!
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