Such a simple saying with a powerful meaning. Doesn’t that meaning change depending on the experience to which you apply it?

Sure, I often say that if I am terminally ill, I’d be better off not knowing until the end. All the suffering and pain that we put people through to prolong the inevitable. All the worrying and fretting about something over which I have no control. I’ll take that ignorance…maybe…

But, what about the ills of society – poverty, illness, abuse, starvation. All of this happens in our own back yards every day, but millions go on as if it is not there.  Is it easier to go about my day without thinking about the cold and lonely homeless man, or to eat my fabulous dinner without thinking of the children going to bed hungry tonight? Sure. it’s easier, but is it really bliss?

How many people do you know that have been homeless, hungry, struggled with mental illness or addicition, lost their job. Life deals some pretty nasty blows when we least expect them.

I pose this question: When life deals you one of those nasty blows, do you want to be the person who always turned the other cheek and embraced the ignorance is bliss mentality? Or, do you want to be the person who reached out to others in their time of need and tried to make a difference?