Ignorance is bliss

Ignorance is bliss. 

This sentence has great power. It can help you get away with almost anything. It can justify your accions by mearly aknowledging that you just didn't know better. 

But is ignorance really bliss? By not knowing, are we happier? Are we more alive? Do we know what we are missing?  Sometimes the truth hurts, that I do know. But how can we grow and strive if we are not pushed by the truth? 

I can´t say that Im happier about finding out about what happened while I thought that I was in love. I can´t say that Im not broken or hurt. But I will tell you this. I used to think that my heart was broken because I lost the perfect man. The love of my life. And now, Im still broken, but Im sad because he was not who I thought he was. There was no bliss in my ignorance, there was only expectations and fairytale love. There is still no bliss. But believe me when I say this; I´d rather live with this pain for a while and strive from it, than continue living in the dark. 

Yes its painful, he didn´t love me as I thought he could He was not the love of my life. But isn´t it better? After all this pain,  knowing that he´s still out there? That I didn´t lose my love? That I just have not met him yet?  That there will be bliss after all? 

I guess there is a beautiful thing of not knowing, an amazing sense of inocence. But when is it inocence harmful? How can we grow without the pain. How can we grow without truth. 

We can´t.  So yes, it´s not always blissful, BELIEVE ME. But it is always worth it, when you grow from pain, when you strive from sorrow and find true bliss.