People everywhere have nearly always said "Ignorance is bliss" or at least has believed in the idea, and in some case I can agree with it. There are some moments where you just wish you would of never found out the truth and lived blissfully ignorant or would of liked believing what you believed instead of knowing the truth because the truth could of been hurtful. I would like to add an example of mine where i would of preferred being ignorant to a problem rather than knowing the truth. It was recently found that I have High Blood Pressure and at first i thought nothing of it. I simple thought my pulse was higher than normal and there was no consequences and everything would remain normal. But as I did research I found out I had double the chances of a heart attack, stroke, heart disease, heart and kidney failure and many other cardio-vascular diseases which at first devastated me. I felt i would fall into depression because in my head I knew i couldn't live a normal life. There are many other examples of ignorance being bliss. I don't think anything is cuter than a young child's innocence. In fact they might be the reason this whole saying came to be. I bet many of you have sat down with a young child and heard their long stories of how they think things happen and can't help but smile at some of the things they say. They are so blissfully unaware of reality, and none of us have the heart to crush their beliefs so we let them believe that Santa Claus brings gift and a white stork brings babies home. I will not argue that, for in my opinion ignorance in children is bliss. Children are all about learning and with time they will be less and less ignorant, well in most cases.
Girls are so easy to judge without knowing what caused to be "different" or at least not what they consider normal, they are ignorant
Ignorance is Blissfully wrong
In my opinion ignorance is bliss only in young children but as a teenager or adult Ignorance can be much more harmful and violent. A lot of times people fear what they do not understand. Some examples would be if people see a young single mother walking down with a small child people judge her without knowing what really happened. She could have been raped, or her boyfriend might of been sexually abusive and left her when she was pregnant. We are so quick to judge when we are completely and utterly ignorant to the situation. Another example especially in teenagers is when a kid at school is gay most of the time that boy or girl can be harrassed, picked on beat up or in bad cases be beat severely or even worse killed. This usually happens because the kids are so accustom to certain kinds of people that when some one who is different pops in they can have a mixture of reactions such as curiosity, excitement to anger and hostility. Most of these feelings come from not knowing, from not understanding, from ignorance. In these cases ignorance has harmful effects and people can wind up hurt. It is extremely saddening when i turn on the t.v and hear of another person being murdered or beat just for being gay,lesbian, or transgender or when i hear of young girls needing help because kids at school call her names for having a baby at a young age and so many other reasons that could be avoided by educating ourselves. Knowledge is power. Next time you come across a person or are in a situation you don't understand ask questions try to understand, or go home and do some research over why certain people may be the way they are or why certain things happen. The answers may surprise you. The more people know about each other the better place the world can be.
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