Wisdom of Life?

Out of Class

"一个人要获得实在的幸福，就必须既不太聪明，也不太傻。人们把这种介于聪明和傻之间的状态叫做生活的智慧。"

"If a person wants to gain real happiness, s/he should neither be too smart, nor to foolish. People call the state between intelligence and foolishness as the wisdom of life."

I agree with the quotation above about how to live life. I think when we know too much about the world, that's when we start to lose the world's beauty and see its ugliness. A possible analogy to this situation could be this: A child used to believe in Santa Claus. When the child grows up, s/he will learn that Santa Claus doesn't exist. 

In relationships with people, I think it's best to be both smart and foolish. We should be smart to know what's going on, but foolish to ignore the things that could hurt us. Maybe this is when I'm starting to block some of my perception and reason (WoKs), so that I do not see the certain imperfectness in relationships. Hence, when I know only partial truth, the partial truth becomes my personal truth and pragmatic truth. The partial truth that I know if sufficient to keep me happy and to prevent me from sadness. 

Some may disagree with me that being foolish and ignorant is the wrong way of living life. Some might think that purposefully being ignorant is just a way of escaping from the truth. Well, who decides what's the best and right way of living life? How is the absolute truth better than pragmatic truth or vice versa? Why can't we live in a way that conforms with ethical egoism? How and who decides that living with ethical egoism is right or wrong?

I accept the fact that sometimes being foolish promotes my happiness in the long run. If I become too smart in relationships, I will lose some people that I never want to lose.

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