Ignorance

The biggest misconception! Mistakes human beings make!

You satisfy your egos with false beliefs, over-assumed stereotypes. You might have heard this, “Ignorance is bliss”.

I fail to understand, why do people ignore others, when it’s not required.

Ignorance, I feel, is when people are confused with themselves. They don’t want to answer numerous questions. So, they choose an easy option is to all in all ignore them.

In my opinion, ignorance can be a weakness. People who don’t wish to take responsibility will ignore things as if they don’t exist, at all.  They might never take up the topics with you, that you might be wanting to clarify or talk about.  

The saying, “when ignorance is bliss, why seek knowledge.”

A few times, ignorance can be useful as well. Sometimes, we should ignore certain things. This can be for our benefits, or, to guard our delicate self-respect from the so-called societal norms.

Ignorance takes you away from reality. People often say, “it’s better not to know certain things than to know them”. But will turning a blind eye or ignoring things will change them? Will it be better in that manner? You can be ignorant about aspects you don’t have to deal with, regularly.  But what about those things which you have to deal daily?  

The first thing that you need to ask yourself is, how long is this ignorance going to help us ignore facts and societal norms?  

You cannot run away from yourself!

Ignorance is running away from oneself, our problems, and, our solutions. Some of my clients always suggest that “ignorance is often the only solution that we can find for our particular problems”. But when I gave them similar problems as case-study, or for feedback, I was surprised to know the best of solution they came up with. We tend to ignore certain things, at a specific time, not because we want to ignore, but because you lack the courage to take-up things and be responsible for the consequences.

I have often seen and experienced that we tend to ignore to talk about certain things because we don’t want to bear the consequences of our decisions.   

Are Ignorance, Arrogance and Stupidity the same thing?

With the slight difference in the meaning of the each word, it can be said that in most of the situation the Ignorance, Arrogance and Stupidity are same. We generally tend to use these words synonymous. For eg. like when someone tend to not to accept the fact or reality of a particular thing, we tend to address them “He is behaving stupid or His Arrogance behavior is the reason of his lack of knowledge.” Also Ignorance is one of the Attitude traits like Arrogance which ultimately is tagged as Stupid behavior in general.  

But not putting up as a generalize, some times people do behave Ignorant not because they are Arrogant and do not agree or have knowledge but when someone comes on defense mode on an argument, they may sound ignorant to the other person. It may also sound like stupidity but it can be subconscious behavior by them.   

The problem remains unsolved!

Ignoring things will never amend them. They will appear again and follow you till the time you stop ignoring them. The best thing you can do is to take-up things, work on them and finish them. It will not harass you, because, in the back of your mind, it always be that you have something unfinished. And, that you even know, this will appear again, and you will have to deal with it.

Ignoring things can help, but not always. Sometimes, ignorance is good; it helps you to come out of an existing overly complex situation, that you know you will anyways have nothing left with them. But in this process, we sometimes ignore things which will come up in the future and will have to face them somewhere down the line. However, in the current situation, we choose to ignore them because we become selfish during such circumstances.

But Sometimes Ignorance is not the problem. The problem is people may not always care about what you care as they may not believe what you believe so they choose to Ignore. Which is easy as no explanation is required.

Tell us if you have ever behaved Ignorant about anything? or saw anyone else behave like this? , when did you realize your ignorant behavior and what did you do to cope up with that , share your experiences with us at contact@aarthalife.in 

Understand yourself, stay fit and keep musing!