“The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books-a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.”
Now I’m no Albert Einstein but it doesn’t take a genius to recognize the potency to his words and the relevance they hold to each individual struggle to understand the world we live in and rationalize the hand we are dealt-well we can’t. Simply put, we can’t. We spend so much time trying to understand why things they are, whether we attribute said explanations to religious beliefs, a result of the human condition, scientific anomalies, or frankly whatever we deem a plausible excuse for why we are the way we are or why things are the way they are. The fact of the matter is there are not enough ‘facts’ in the world to appropriate much of what we think we know. Pretty bleak eh? I guess the point is that it may be a gross understatement to say that we are lacking in answers for a lot of things but that shouldn’t stop us from trying to make sense of what we do know and at least do what we can to better the lives of those we have control of. Yet I feel like society today vastly inhibits us from human sympathy and seeing the so-called ‘bigger-picture’ when the things that occupy most people’s minds (who can afford to) are scores of hockey games (don’t get me wrong I am a huge pens fan) or what new car they are going to buy next or the ever popular ‘who wore it best’ from the night before’s award show celebrating…guess what…celebrities. Well no disrespect to their talent but I think its time others get some of that celebration. How often do you hear of a sport legend or celebrity’s death publicized on media while every day innocent people die in underprivileged conditions but their lives go exceedingly unnoticed by the public eye. They say ignorance is bliss, but who says? And why has it come to the point where we turn a blind eye everyday to the things going on around us, far greater than us, so that we can go on living our ‘happy’ lives in our content little bubbles. Ignorance should NOT be bliss.
ignorance is not bliss 