The pain of loss is worse than ignorance

I believe that it is better to never have known something than to have something but to lose it. The latter creates the sensation of loss, and in certain cases also takes away the hope that the loss may be temporary. If you have never known something, you can continue living your life without any sense of loss.

However, there is a benefit to knowing something and ultimately losing it. One can have bragging rights that he has experienced this and that, while the ignorant one listens, knowing that he can never experience what the knowledgeable one has.

Summing up my thoughts with a quote, “Ignorance is Bliss.” When you do not feel the pain of losing something, you can go on living your life as per normal, instead of dwelling upon your losses, and perhaps eventually going mad.