Is the price of wisdom lost comfort blankets?

Question

And have you lost any lately?

Answer 1

Yes, wisdom removes those comfort blankets that are based on unsubstantiated beliefs being subscribed to more out of convenience or extraneous influence than derived from any reasoned choice... they are better removed through wisdom, or else could well end up causing greater harm than just a bit of discomfort. The price paid is thus worth it.

Answer 2

No.

Lost comfort blankets is the price of obtaining knowledge.

Wisdom is the thing that tells us that we need to shed those comfort blankets to become all that we can be and to become more enlightened as to our purpose in life.

Answer 3

Hi,

I'm not sure I ever had a comfort blanket. It took years for my daughter to give up hers; she had (has) excema and was in terrible pain. She had a strong psychological need for the solace her blanket provided her. When she was ready, she let it go. Now I see someone who is maturing nicely, she dishes out some wise advice (at times!) and she has learned a lot from life's lessons so far. She has centred her life on helping disabled and elderly people. She is one of the most warm and caring people I know. But she has seen suffering that I could not cope with witnessing. And oh how I bet she sometimes misses that warm, snug, secure feel her comfort blanket used to give her.

Ignorance may be bliss but wisdom also provides a comfort of its own. It helps us appraise, asses, handle and grow through the difficulties of life. Through wisdom we might understand the purpose of some trials and how we might use these in later life to benefit ourselves and others. Holding on too tightly to that comfort blanket may soothe the child within but it also keeps us in the dark. “The darkness of our world is not knowing and understanding. Light can only come, when we Make it our business to find out. - Socrates ca. 470-399 B.C.

Polly

Answer 4

i dont read it quite the same, i suppose. im not going to give you some wordy philosophical answer. i had a 'woober' for the first 10 years of my life. it was called doggie sheet. i still have it in a baggie in my top drawer, and im 35. to me it represents all the things in my childhood that were bad that it comforted me and protected me from. i will never throw it away, even though i now have the 'wisdom' of adulthood that allows me to see why adults do things that upset children. so...i keep it to remind myself that adults can sometimes overlook their effects on kids, so i am always aware of how i treat my own. so i break the cycle. to me the comfort blanket is also the wisdom.
if i read it the other way, at least to me, wisdom is comfort. ignorance is definately not bliss. wisdom envelops you and protects you much like a blanket.

Answer 5

Small comfort, & small price for wisdom. I feel that I gave all mine away long ago, but who knows? Is there an end to gaining wisdom?

Edit: Just read the answers. Do I have a "purpose" in life??

Answer 6

The price of wisdom is the loss of innocence and since the saying, "ignorance is bliss", is also true; one must assume that wisdom and knowledge render comfort blankets rather "cold comfort".

Answer 7

Certainly it's difficult to lose the illusions of youth and ignorance. However, I would contend that those "blankets" were a shackle, not a shelter. Personally, I find Truth to be an infinitely more substantial companion.

Learning isn't difficult. The trial is in coming to appreciate the knowledge that we've gained.

Answer 8

Yes, it does cost you a comfort blanket-and more. But what you get is mail that none can pierce.

Sadly, I am still cocooned in layers of comfort blankets. But who knows; someday I may emerge in full glory! Haha!

have a nice day :)

Answer 9

Great question. Small said it best.