Ignorance Is Bliss

October 5, 2021

Have you read Prof Kudo's new prompt yet? If not, then click this link. What's The Word Promptfactory. Since I can't think of any topic to write about, I'll give this a try. If you want to join, you can visit this site randomwordgenerator.com and choose five random words as your prompts. Thank you for this one prof Kudo as I don't need to dig in my thoughts anymore just to make content for today.

It is still Sunday at the time of writing, and I was slacking in my abode. Lying on my back with my legs up on the wall, and hands tapping my phone, with a messy bed and hair spreading on my pillow 🤣. What a life! Only happens every holiday. Speaking of holidays, I got one last Friday as it was the National Day of HK and another one is coming this 14th day of the month because of the Double Ninth Festival. I forgot about that festival, but I am more after the break, lol.

Anyway, my apology for this nonsensical introduction and let's proceed to the prompts. And here are the five random words I got from the generator site.

Ignorance

Have you ever felt like you prefer to be ignorant? Don't know this and that, act blindly by the happenings around us, pretend to be deaf and can't hear anything, and mute as we don't want to say any word about something we don't dare to contemplate. Because as the adage goes "ignorance is bliss," and we don't want to get into trouble, or start a commotion, or stress out our minds on untrustworthy stuff. Because in my case, I prefer to shut my mind and ignore the tumults and clamors, even though my tranquility is at stake.

There were days that I became the subject of gossip, inside and outside this virtual world. I know that I am not doing anything wrong, but I just let them say and think words against me. Who cares anyway? Because even if I defend myself, people will only dig into my past, look at my mistakes, and won't take the good ones into account. It is as if they are perfect and never committed any mistake, or get the better of someone or something. Are you? I'll screw it up.

Benefit

I better give them the benefit of the doubt even though their loquacious mouth and garrulous minds don't stop throwing words behind my back. Because at the end of the day, it's not my reputation that will be tarnished, but theirs. It's not my energy in gossiping that will be used up, but theirs. It's not my mind that will be stressed out, but theirs. Who cares anyway? We are all strangers here.

But unbeknownst to many, I consider all people interacting with me as friends, with no sugar coatings and cherries on top! And it is up to them to take me for granted or as a friend. It is up to them to talk to me nicely or stab my back. It is up to them to befriend me or ignore me. It's not my loss anyway. It's yours!

Chase

Every day is a chance to chase every opportunity, a chance to enjoy my life and be happy. So why would I waste my time minding the capriciousness of others? Some people would really waste their time minding other people's business than taking the chance to make theirs better. Why is that so? Because they have no other businesses, and other people's businesses are their business. What a dismal life!

Some people want to chase other people's success, while some would just sit down, be envious, and blabber around, and are not doing anything to lift their lives from being stuck in the mud. Instead of letting their mouths work, why not let their bodies and minds work? It's really absurd thinking about those people who are too ambitious in their minds but too lazy to work things out.

Those people are blaming the so-called "Faith" for having the life they never wanted. Blaming their unfortunate lives for not allowing them to step on the ladder of success and fortune. Is faith the one controlling our lives? Of course, it is us. To be born poor is not our mistake, but to die poor is our great mistake. So before you complain about your life, you better look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if you are doing the right thing.

Achievement

We always have the opportunity to set goals and chase success. It's just up to us to step up or step down or simply be stagnant in our spot. But it's always overwhelming if we step up. Every achievement in life we acquire in life is equivalent to success. Just overcoming fear is a success. Surpassing an obstacle is a success. Accomplishing a complex task is a success. What else can we ask for when we complete a whole day without jeopardizing our state of mind and health? It alone is a success, an achievement to thank for.

There are many things that we can call achievements. It's not just about having a luxurious life or having the capability to buy limited merchandise, cars, and expensive stuff, because those things are just byproducts of our ambitious minds.

The real achievements for me? It is when I extend a hand to someone who badly needs it. It is when I accomplish something new by myself without the help of others. It is when I successfully surpass steep slopes and valleys and cross dark tunnels. Those simple accomplishments would profoundly impact my entire life.

Gallery

And isn't it great to collect small and simple achievements and save them in our gallery? Something that we can be proud of and we could shout to the world, "I did it! And I am proud of myself!" And when we grow old, we have something to reminisce about and make them subjects of stories that we can tell to our grandchildren. Oops, children of my nieces and nephews rather 😅.

A gallery's collection of beautiful photographs of beautiful memories, that is awesome. Why should we collect our memories, not things? Because the most important things in this world are not things, but memories. I couldn't agree more! Because the gallery of memories will help us remember our lost memories once our brain cells malfunction in remembering things in the past and even the present.

Memories can even help us define who we truly are. As we sometimes pretend to be someone due to living in this judgemental society. They can help us self-reflect and recollect the negative things we did in the past, and ponder on how to make them right. And they are the most vital asset we have in life that can not be bought by money and can not be stolen by any thief. And as I have said above, we can create stories from our memories that are worth sharing.

And I want to take this opportunity to say, "thank you beautiful souls of readcash and noisecash. You guys are part of the beautiful memory that I stored in my gallery. And when the time comes that these platforms are no longer living, the memories I have with you guys will live forever in my mind."

Thanks for reading beautiful souls 😘.

Time of writing: 11:30 am 10/03/21