- The key to all emotional healing can be found in nature. Agree
- Nature is filled with harsh cruelties. Agree
- A person’s priorities should place family before work. Agree
- Enjoying life is more important than pursuing fame, glory, and knowledge. Agree
Pursing fame, glory, and knowledge may give you happiness but at the end of the day you will find a sense of emptiness. You will reach a point where you will wonder 'is that all there is?' By pursuing fame, glory, and knowledge what you are actually doing is trying to be happy. You believe that once you're famous you'll be happy, once you've got glory you'll be happy, once you learn something you'll be happy.
The truth is that happiness lies in the moment. It lies in the here and now, it lies in appreciating what you have and in counting your blessings. if you're always trying to get something more then you will never be happy. Happiness will always be around the next corner.On the other hand if you make being happy now your objective in life then whether you get fame or whether you get glory or knowledge or whatever else you might want to achieve, you'll be happy. This is because you will be enjoying life as you live it now, this very minute, not tomorrow or yesterday.
You could say that if you have glory or fame or knowledge then you can enjoy life. But what if you don't? That's why it is important to look at life the other way round.
- Those born with social and financial advantages have a responsibility for those who are not. Agree
- Ignorance is bliss. Disagree
This proverb is based on the idea that what you don't know can't hurt you. However, this is not entirely true. Supposing you're in a boat traveling along a river leading towards the Niagara Falls but you don't know that the Niagara Falls are around the corner. You might
be blissfully enjoying the scenery, the boat ride, the moment and the next thing you know you're over the falls and you're dead. In which case ignorance might have ben bliss for that particular moment but you're lack of knowledge for something eventually killed you. In the same way people may be happier living in their own secluded world, maybe lying to themselves about some truth or rather, not willing to face reality, yet that truth, if they don't face up to it, might eventually destroy them so it's not such a good idea to be ignorant.
If a person for example doesn't know about advances in science, in medicine, in technology etc he might be blissfuly happy in one way but this lack of knowledge could also mean he is missing out on things that could also be making him happier.
- The pursuit of knowledge is a volatile quest. Agree
- Someone’s ego (over-inflated sense of self-worth or superiority) will cause a tragic fall. Agree
- Children learn their behaviors by watching and mimicking adults. Agree
- Most people are basically cruel. Agree
- Society makes a person whatever he becomes. Disagree
- The “disenfranchised man,” who finds himself unable to live within society for whatever reason, is someone for whom we should feel sympathy or reverence. Disagree
- Rejection and mistreatment can manifest themselves in a person becoming rage-filled. Agree
- If a person or an animal is treated with cruelty, he will respond to others in the same way. Agree
- Those people we deem “monsters” in today’s society are merely misunderstood. Agree
