The bliss of ignorance!

As we walked past the scene, my mind was lost in thought and there was a wide smile on my face. I chided myself for smiling at a scene that would bring pity to any viewer’s heart, but I couldn’t help it.

I was on a return trip from Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria, to my base in Lagos State, when I saw a mentally disturbed man (a madman in our colloquial English). It might be hard for the mind of someone who didn’t see this scene to imagine what I’m going to try to describe here, but try to imagine it anyway.

This man lay propped up on his left elbow at the side of the road, his back resting on the tall blades of grass that covered the length of the road for miles. He was eating something that looked like an orange. He looked very unkempt, of course, and his legs were crossed over each other. So if he were to capture this image on camera, he would see a very scruffy man propped up on one elbow against a background of tall green blades of grass. It would probably be a good image considering the stark contrast between the ordered beauty of nature and the disorder of an unconscious mind.

But it wasn’t all this that made me smile. It was the look on her face. In the split second I caught that look, my mind memorized it. She simply stayed in my memory as an image that my mind photographed. She had a very satisfied smile, no, pleased. And I allowed my mind to try to break through the walls that surrounded hers. I read in the mind of one who is crazy. And this is what I read. Freedom! Empty of worries or worries! Relaxation! Satisfaction! Contentment! And then I thought: Oh, the bliss of ignorance, the incomparability of a mind that doesn’t know the rules of man but is perfectly aware of the rules of nature. A mind that is not afraid to do the ‘impossible’ and is not limited by the inventions of mankind. That is the mind possessed by the one who is mad. And he made me think.

What if we all lived like this? Not crazy but unlimited. What if we all lived like this? No matter who called what impossible and just go out there and do it. Don’t feel ashamed when we fail and just try as many times as we can, be determined until we succeed or can avoid what we are doing. Not wanting so much what we don’t have to the point of living our lives in total discontent and dissatisfaction, forgetting that many others don’t have even half of what we have. Not living below ourselves but living life with respect for nature and its rules. We would live better lives. Much better lives.

I imagine that I am living this life and I can already feel a wave of happiness flooding me from within. It would be a beautiful life. Not letting anything stop me from my out-of-this-world dreams, my challenging and intrepid self, and my high standards. Just live without caring what others think of me, my attitude and my actions as long as I am happy with myself and everything that matters to me. Imagine yourself gliding through life, gliding through it, happy, joyful, and content no matter what other people felt or thought. It is a beautiful thought. Beautiful.

However, we would all agree that there is no one who wants to go crazy, but what if there is something to learn from them? There is no situation in life without a lesson to present and no knowledge is wasted.

If, in every situation, in the midst of all the chaos and violence, crime and destruction, we search for a place within ourselves where we can really be at peace, where we can still hold a lonely stillness, then we will live longer, we will live longer. time. we will be much happier and our minds will be more at peace.