Which is worse? To be . . .

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Which is worse? To be . . .
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Wed, 11-28-2007 - 7:18pm

Which is worse? To be . . .



  • Blissfully ignorant
  • Painfully aware


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Wed, 11-28-2007 - 7:21pm

I've actually thought about this quite a bit.

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Wed, 11-28-2007 - 8:45pm
You're absolutely right, the ignorant are usually the happiest which is one of the reasons why I can't decide!!
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Wed, 11-28-2007 - 10:29pm
You know me, I cant hide from anything . . .(-: I am of the thought what you don't know can sneak up and bite you, what you see coming you can brace for. (-:
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Registered: 11-17-2007
Wed, 11-28-2007 - 11:23pm
Which is why children are (generally) happier. Happily oblivious of the big bad world, where present = playing with model railroad trains on the living room floor, and future = bedtime. Happiness in simplicity.
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Thu, 11-29-2007 - 8:53am
I'd have to say being blissfully ignorant is worse. When my husband was cheating on me and people knew and didn't tell me. It's not fun to find out later on and feel completely humiliated that for months other people knew it's completely humiliating and leaves you completely shattered and further damages the psyche.

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Deirdre

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Thu, 11-29-2007 - 11:49am

I'd have to say being blissfully ignorant is worse. When my husband was cheating on me and people knew and didn't tell me. It's not fun to find out later on and feel completely humiliated that for months other people knew it's completely humiliating and leaves you completely shattered and further damages the psyche.


For this exact reason, I'd have to go with blissfully ignorant. I've been cheated on too and before I knew, I was pretty daggone happy too. It was in finding out (and becoming painfully aware) that I become miserable and fell into a huge depression. Sure, I needed to know, but knowing sometimes hurts much worst.


For me, it wasn't the ignorance that hurt, it was finding out that almost killed me. I could have lived without that.

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Thu, 11-29-2007 - 11:55am

Well the problem wasn't that I was daggone happy, but I thought I was going crazy because I knew something was wrong, but I kept getting told nothing was wrong, and everyone was telling me everything was fine. So everyone was just lying.


I can live with pain, I can survive pain, I bend I do not break. But knowing that all those people conspired and didn't have enough respect for me who claimed to be my friends to tell me. That's just not cool.


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Deirdre

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Thu, 11-29-2007 - 11:57am

Oh I see. And that is much wose. I had no idea and neither did any of my friends or family. We all thought I had a great boyfriend. I had one married friend that envied my relationship.


We were all fooled.