Why Ignorance Is Important

In a world obsessed with knowledge we are ignorant about so many things, but is that actually a bad thing? I don’t think so. Think about death. Our death is the one thing that we are completely ignorant about. We have no idea when the moment will come when we cease to exist. Even people who have a terminal illness and have three months to live don’t even know the exact moment they will die. In our ignorance we can continue to live and embrace what we have. If we knew how we would die we would avoid anything that had to do with it and miss out on life. If we knew the exact time we would die at we would constantly think about how many more days we had to our death.
Being ignorant about ourselves is, to me, one of the best things in the world. You are constantly learning new things about yourself every day, however those things that you learn are not necessarily constant. Imagine knowing every single thing there possibly is about yourself. That’s …show more content…
Ignorance makes the brain free. It can image anything and everything. Imagine being ignorant about everything. What would you image or create? Yes some things would be duplications of inventions that we currently have now, but all of those inventions were made in ignorance. Creativity would be endless and there might not be so many ‘brain blocks.’ The possibilities would be endless. Many a times I have tried to come up with a ‘new idea’ or a ‘new invention’ but I was hopeless. I couldn’t imagine anything because I was too aware of my knowledge and rather than embracing my ignorance enough to make my mind wonder. I think that when an epiphany strikes it is a moment when we are capable of opening up our mind to embrace ignorance. It is the moment that we transform into a state of awareness and knowledge. Children are ignorant beings, but that have a much larger imagination than any adult has. At what point in our lives did this ignorant state that lets us have this wonderful imagination creep