Monday, November 16, 2009

allegory of the cave (P)

I feel like the prisoner. No, not the escaped, enthusiastic, enlightened prisoner. Not even close. I feel like one of the many, one of the many that are still chained in the cave. I'm scared of how the sun will blind me, but I know that the world outside is incomparable to my world.

I used to think ignorance was bliss. How wrong of me, how flawed and how selfish. Ignorance, bilss? Nope. It's okay, though. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds (RWE). I love knowing everything and yet nothing (S).

I love my friends. They feel for me, the kind of special vicarous outrages or joys whenever I share my personal experiences and dilemmas.

5 comments:

  1. oh joanne, how poetic you are -_-
    but dude, seriously, that's how i've been feeling. but in a less eloquent way. you should change your blog title to "silver-tongued: as elegant as it sounds" cuz srsly girl, you got that journalism shit on lawwwwwwk.

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  2. very well written. give me some of your eloquence!

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  3. haha i've never seen anyone use the word hobgoblin coherently in a sentence, let alone a blog post

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  4. haha i'm quoting ralph waldo emerson!

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