When I first saw the title of this article, my first reaction what that “Yes, sometimes it is bliss.” The writer asking the question in a Psychology Today article had seen this bumper sticker and at first agreed, then started thinking more about it.
In my younger years, I felt the need to know everything about anything. With the advent of the internet, news and information came at us in droves and I, like most, couldn’t get enough of it. I would spend hours trolling around this new resource, drawn in by its allure.
Here we are 15 years later with information filling our every waking moment–we barely have time to sit still and just think. I can’t help but wonder if this has contributed to the harried, stressed-out nature of people today. Do we really need to know about every murder, every case of child abuse, starvation, or each minute of the rollercoaster we call Wall Street?
Maybe ignorance is bliss.
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