Ignorance is an unexpected virtue of happiness, meaning that nobody realizes that the less you know, the happier you can be. Yet we, as human beings, are naturally curious about things we do not know about, so we constantly thirst and crave and waste precious moments of our lives searching for new information about things that may not even matter in the next few years. This shows that when more people have more information, they cannot be truly content with their lives if they are endlessly searching for new information. Horrible crimes and injustices are being committed every day, and even our own everyday lives are filled with tough decisions and dreadful circumstances. So without being knowledgeable, where might we be in …show more content…
Our brains make us superior to all other living creatures; it is a developmental adaption that we have grown as a method to simply get through our daily routines. We have to be able to think in order to adapt and to advance. Remaining ignorant will conflict with our natural instincts that we have grown as we have aged. The main question that we have to answer is whether knowing more is better than not. Humans have always expressed interest in the material things in life and each of us has wishes and reams about how we want to possess those things, but to get what we need, we need to act upon our dreams and wishes. To know which choices we should make, we must have certain information. Without that information, everything would be about taking a shot in the dark and unnecessary risks. Getting the information isn't simple, mostly because it takes time and effort. Less significant objectives generally require less information, but our biggest life objectives need quite a bit of experience, time, and information. Getting the information itself is no small price to pay. Sadly, life doesn't permit us to pick what we see, what info we take in, and the way it influences …show more content…
The more we live, the more we experience, the more we take in, the more information we achieve and the more we change accordingly. It's something that can't be stopped, and in some cases, it can’t even be slowed down, but do we actually need to slow it down, or is it just our fear keeping us from slowing it down? Being scared of knowledge sounds ridiculous, but we are all scared to know something at some point in our lives. In every situation, there are some questions that we would prefer all to just not know the answer to. We are all drawn to know about how certain things can affect us. But since we know that some things are quite often met with suffering, we would much rather not know anything about them, regardless of the fact that, sometimes, it may actually be better for us that we find out some information. I believe that what we all fear most is being hurt more for having certain information than not having the information. A few things we know we would more than likely not be better off knowing would be losing or a friend or family member. For some of us, we only fear that we won’t be better off knowing. We expect that by having that information, we will be losing something, regardless of the possibility that what we are losing is the happiness that is regularly connected with