I wouldn't want to know

If I could have the chance to decide between not knowing what will happen in my life, and knowing every single detail about what the future will be like... I would choose not to know. The reason why, as we discussed in class, is because that would completely ruin the excitement, anxiety, agony, suspense, mystery, etc. that life brings. Not knowing is actually the enjoyable part about life, if you think about it. The reason for this is because you never know what is going to happen next, what will be the best decision of your life, what will be the worst, what you will learn from and what you won't, and who you are going to be with. If you lived knowing what was going to happen, you honestly wouldn't really have a reason to live, in my opinion. We kind of talked about this on another lecture, how pain is pleasure -- I think that relates to this in the sense that when we are SO anxious about knowing something, yes, it is pain, but it's a pleasurable pain because you know that you are about to get really good news. Or, sometimes bad news. An example of this is with college. Every time I am about to receive an admission decision email, I am so anxious it hurts, but if I didn't have that anxiety it wouldn't be as fun to open that email and see what they say. This topic really hit me about today's lecture. I really enjoyed it.