Often, when you look back at life, at a certain point of time you might have had to rethink whether you should have known or not known about things you knew. It can be about a particular person, things, or a situation. Whether that thing, truth or situation would have been better if you didn’t know about it? Or, whether it is better that you know?

You can’t unknow things                                            

We end up knowing about the things or situation to the extent that we don’t realize that it is or it has caused us hurt. Somewhere, we start losing faith, confidence, and motive in life.

But have we ever thought about whether our thirst for knowledge about a particular situation was right or wrong? One will never understand this until faced with a situation where one has to know things because they deserve to know them at any cost. We feel the need to know because we think it is necessary for us to know at that point of time. However, we may not know where to pull the breaks for our urge to stop. We will realize that those things will start to affect us mentally and physically as well. Then we think, should we have been able to ‘unknow’. 

How much information is enough information?

It is important to realize that sometimes it is necessary to know how much information or analyzing of the situation is enough for you. So when you start to analyze you get the curiosity to know more. You want to know more because you feel that you will or can find a better solution when you know a little more than what you already know. It’s like in an exam paper, as your time passes while writing exams you feel you have many things to write but you don’t. However, sometimes you realize with time that you are getting only repeated information about the situation, the only difference is the manner in which you receive. As you get the same question paper but with different sentence format or in different language, but the question and answer will be the same.

When to pull the breaks?

There always comes a point in life where you need to pause and think about your feelings and see its effect on your life. Because while you are busy analyzing a particular aspect, you tend to divert your focus and energy on that thing and in-between you lose control and track of your life. That’s the time to press the pause button. Let’s see how we can do that:

Knowing when to stop analyzing a situation is complicated but not impossible. When you are onto analyzing the situation, remember a few things. Those are:

1. How important for you is to analyze the situation? And are you ready for the answers?
2. Will the current situation change after you have analyzed the situation?
3. Once you have started to analyze, has the solution or the answer changed at every point in your life?
4. Is the solution or the answers repeating, during your courses of analyzing the situation?
5. Is the process draining you mentally and physically during the course of time?
6. Are you getting more confused with the course of time?

When you no longer have a solution for the situation that keeps on rising, or you have the same solution for what came up now to what was before. We keep on looking at the same place from different directions because we think that change in the direction will change the place.

Will the situation change? No, it will not. In fact you get more confused as to which place was better, or will angle was better.                         

In the same way is life. Because after a point you realize that no matter how much you analyze the situation, the solution or the perceptive you have will not change because that is the only solution sometimes to that particular situation.

It is difficult to know when to stop, but not impossible. Sometimes you have to stop because you know that walking beyond this will affect you and will not give you any physical or mental peace. Moreover, it’s very important to know how we react to everything because in the end it’s we are going to be affected.

Whether that thing, truth or situation would have been better if you didn’t know about it? Or, whether it is better that you know? Share your experiences with us at  contact@aarthalife.in  in the comments section below.