Blog Entry 11

 

Does Knowledge Makes Us Happier

Not all knowledge makes one happier. Expanding our intelligence, is great though, if it's something we want to learn more about.If someone ask me does knowledge makes me happier or not than I would like to answer that, oviously it makes me happier. However, life is short. In this short time of life we should learn as much as we can. Knowledge is like a ocean. It has no limitation and as much as we get into it, we can learn a lot.           

In the movie "Matrix" as we can see Neo's overall experience is an educational process similar to the release of the prisoner in the “Allegory of the Cave.” Neo lives his life like a prisoner in the matrix. Then he figure out the world he is living its not real. All his life he was controlled by some one. The truth was like awfull tasting medicine but at list he knows what is real. Like Neo, may be one day we need to face awfull truth like his and also it can be so hard to believe. But the question is how strong we are to face that kinds of awfull truth that is actually important.

I have a experience of my life and that is so painful. I have a friend and he is living his life like living in the cave. He stays all the time in his home and never come out. Because of that he don’t see the outer world. He don’t know how beautiful is outside world. The reason he stay in his home all the time is because he lost his mom since he born. He think he is resposible for his mom’s death. Then I have decided, no mater how it cost I have to help my friend. Then I have told him about real world. How it looks and how much lucky we are that we are living in this world. We are here because we must earn knowledge as much as we can. After three years of nonstop trying, finally he decided to come out from his world to my world. It was a greatest achievment of my life that I cant forget.

           

In conclusion, the benefit of learning has no limitation. As much as we learn that much as we can get joy. To be honest I love learning new things. And I really want to know everything around me. Also I don’t want to live my life in the cave. I hate darkness and I think no one can stop me from getting knowledge that I deserve to be learned.