Yesterday morning, I was wondering to myself, is it better to be happy but stupid, or smart and angry? The more refined question would be, is it better to be blissfully ignorant or informed and fight?
Unsure of my personal opinion, I turned to my dad. He answered without missing a beat (I suppose he has thought about this before already) that if you're putting this on a personal scale, life is too short for anger. However, if this was on a society scale, being 'angry' to ensure other's 'happiness' would be a great thing to do. I intepret this to mean people who are uninformed, and therefore don't do anything, cannot be technically faulted for being blissfully ignorant. However, if you are knowledgable, you should at least try to do something. Otherwise, you'd be knowledgable and indifferent, something that you can be faulted for in my eyes.
But wouldn't that mean if you stay informed about the world (like you should), you'd have to put in effort for all causes? The environment, hunger, lack of shelter, disease, endangered animals...There are more than you can count, especially since "hunger", and other peopel related problems can be specified even more into areas (such as Asia, Africa, or even more specific, Haiti, China, Swaziland, whereever you live). So how exactly does one try and change the world?
I've switched my motto to "I'm saving MY world smiling!" Instead of spreading my efforts to all the problems in the world (which would probable mean a nickel for each cause -_-)(which I admit, I was trying to do before >.> (don't laugh)), I've resigned myself to change MY world. But to what ends does my world stretch to anyway? Peers, family, of course, but also Haiti, recycling (at least in my area), drugs, hard headed teenagers (I exclude myself from that category), and any other problems I may encounter at school, at home, or in between! Besides, I only have legitimate information on those anyway. I suppose if I really wanted to expand my world, I could research on hunger and disease in Swaziland, but as bad as this sounds, I will instead choose to be blissfully ignorant of outside occurances, at least until one of the problems in my world is solved to the point of my satisfaction. Besides, I'm hoping that perhaps someone will have come to a similar understanding somewhere else, and working (probably harder than me) to change their world!
On a totally shallow point, I want to name my world. Any ideas? SmilingLand doesn't have that much of an appeal...
Smile!
