Ignorance is Bliss
Posted by nathan on 21 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: thoughts on life.
I think, perhaps, Thomas Gray was right.
I had a renewed since of this as I spend most of this week drinking sub-par coffee. Several years ago, when I was ignorant of ‘good’ coffee, I wouldn’t have known this week’s coffee was sub-par. But I’m not, so I was disappointed at each sip.
Yet disappointed, I kept getting coffee, hoping each time for a different result. Alas, the coffee turned not for the better.
Why is it when we know better, we hope for a result quite unlike what we expect?
In the words of Thomas Gray,
No more;–where ignorance is bliss,
‘Tis folly to be wise.
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