Tao of Lunacy

My mind has been blank when it comes to writing today. Nary a bloggable thought has managed to cross into the vast desolate void of my consciousness. Sometimes I think random ideas make the most entertaining fodder for posts. Problem is, when I think of them I’m not usually in a position to be blogging. And if I wrote them all down, I’d never have time to craft short novels from all of them. (Banish the thought I’d actually do many short posts of interest. Nope! I write stories!) So today, I’ll revisit a concept I’ve pondered before -

I’ve been unusually introspective recently…contemplative. An idle mind is dangerous. Swirling thoughts trapped in the confines of solitude can be equally as ruinous (at least in my brain they can). Sometimes, words are incapable of describing my insane ramblings…

One question I’ve mulled over is this:  If something we didn’t know we had disappears, will we miss it? What a question for quiet rumination! And yet what a riotous fray this spawned in my brain!

Firstly, how do you NOT know you have something? The concept of unconscious ignorance actually explains it quite nicely. It is being unaware one does not know. The bliss of ignorance as we generally define it.

Or perhaps one knows it’s there and yet chooses not to acknowledge it - the concept of conscious ignorance. If I don’t give it credence it must not be. (Much like the child who covers his eyes and believes you can no longer see him.) It could be then the simple basic human instinct of denial. As a child I learned the Spanish phrase "Solo se que no se nada." These great philosophical words of Socrates mean "The only thing I know is that I know nothing." I guess I’m not going to wrap this part of the question up in a nice tidy package now am I?

From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Miss: to discover or feel the absence of
Absence: inattention to present surroundings or occurrences
Inattention: the failure to pay attention

Through extrapolation, the question becomes if something we had but didn’t pay attention to disappears, will we feel the absence of it? Failure to pay attention implies choice - therefore it could not have been unconscious ignorance. It follows then, it must have been conscious ignorance all along! We could not have NOT known we had it. We simply chose not to acknowledge it. (We covered our eyes).

Hindsight is always 20/20. So with foresight, make not the choice to ignore what you may wish you had in the future. Do not overlook the greatest gifts, for they are often those right in front of you. Embrace them. Treasure them. Life is far too short to live with regrets. Choose wisely when to ignore, for it may be irreversible.