Bliss: A Couple Crawls out of a Pit, Despite Their Ignorance
In a late night conversation, two human beings stumbled into a repressive pit. The catalyst — a word from the English language, ignorance. To say that Human A didn’t like the word would be an understatement. (Human B had described someone as being ignorant about something.) Unbeknownst to Human B, this word was received as a projectile from a slingshot. Even worse, the slingshot’s latex band failed at its fork end, sending it backwards toward B’s face. This left the pair pit-stranded, injured, and full of adrenaline.
The pit was hollow and cold. The glow from the campfire above added to the dichotomy below. There was a smudge of déjà vu, a recurring theme in a sense, but vagueness was too prevalent to bring any useful past knowledge into the pit.
The fatigue of the day and of the times weighed upon the two human souls. There really was no halfway. Either they’d examine their fall or they’d have to retire their mission, once and for all.
An hour later, these paleontologists had an epiphany. They determined that Human A, an empath, was someone who participated in the act of willful ignorance for self-preservation. One must manage the volume of unnecessary chaos that one ingests. This explained why whenever Human B would casually sing out a couple of sentences of modern-day happenings, especially with the hint of an informed opinion, it was received as enemy fire … a shell shock of cognitive dissonance. Human A had avoided hearing any stressful news. Furthermore, without proper research, Human A could not accept said opinion as fact.
Despite their discovery, this word ignorance was still a lingering linguistic problem. But how had this word been bastardized? Is it a crazy idea that one who uses it properly has neutral intent? Luckily, there were relics in the pit from a defunct library. The Cambridge Dictionary describes ignorance as lack of knowledge, understanding, or information about something. All humans are ignorant in different ways, be it factual, object, or technical ignorance. The word can drive curiosity, invention, and scientific breakthroughs, but can also be the source of stagnation, or in the case of Human A’s willful ignorance on modern day drama … self-preservation.
The pit had served its purpose by isolating the discussion, uncovering revelations, and digging up the details from the dirt. Fieldwork can be grueling, but fossils and dinosaur tracks can’t be found without soil under your feet.
The duo climbed up the vines, seeking the warmth of the fire. They vowed to continue their search for more precise team findings. Despite their individual ignorance, their confirmation bias, and the chaos of life … at the end of the day, listening, focused communication, and micro adjustments will perhaps conquer any verbal or nonverbal pitfall.
