I Don't Know, Do You?

Ignorance is such an odd thing.
It’s something nobody wants to have. Like some fatal disease that no one talks about, yet is spreading so much you can’t help but address it.
It’s one of the worst things to be overcome by.
It impairs your decision making, your judgment, and it could force you to make choices about someone or something that are far from intelligent.
Ignorance gets you into trouble.
Ignorance makes you look…well…dumb.
And the worst part is, you don’t know you have it until it slaps you back in the face.

Whether it’s getting screwed over by someone you thought was a good person, or simply just making a comment about something you didn’t know about and was hated upon.
Ignorance will always end up biting you in the ass.
We base too much off of ignorance.
Hell, we have wars from ignorance. Ignorance of religion, race, whatever it may be.
Ignorance is so powerful, too powerful. Can you believe it can cause people to fight? To hate? It can change an entire nation’s outlook on something. Some people will believe everything they hear if it sounds good. They choose to remain ignorant if it makes life more pleasant. But in the end, knowing is a lot better than not knowing when it comes to everything; including people.

I’m sure everyone has misjudged someone. They might have thought they were very kind, or very mean or very weird. We have all been misjudged. And we’ve all been corrected by those judgments we have made. In good and bad ways. The bad ones open our eyes a little wider than the pleasant ones. Then again, that's how every situation in life is.

Misjudging someone by thinking they are your friend is the worst form. Especially when you have to find out in a nasty way. Not only do you feel betrayed but honestly you just feel stupid. You feel dumb for trusting them or telling them all your secrets. You feel dumb for thinking they were there for you when they really weren’t. Everyone may think it’s the betrayal that hurts the most- which does at first- but deep down, you really just hit yourself in the head, think back, and say, “why did I even?”
As if a slap in the face wasn't enough, it's followed by someone coming up to you and saying “man, you are such a dumb ass.”

And then, it causes you to close up and brand yourself as someone with "trust issues". You can no longer let go and be free to tell everyone your life stories, or share your opinions, but you must remain locked up, in order to not make anymore mistakes or mistrust anyone. Everything seems so much harder. Now it's, "Watch what you say, watch what you do, watch who you interact with."

Everyone has had their fair share of ignorance and misjudgment, trusting the wrong people. Every single person on this planet. And that famous saying, "ignorance is bliss", makes ignorance seem like such a great thing to experience, as if not knowing anything is the right thing to do to make your life seem more pleasant. But sometimes, having knowledge is actually better than living in the dark and telling yourself things are okay when they're not. Only when you address the fact that things are the way they are, is when you know you need to change them. And that's why being cured of ignorance is probably better than being cured of anything else.