personal revelations

"Ignorance is bliss."
This quote has been around me a lot lately in different situations.
So far in my life I feel I have been ignorant about a lot of things. Especially about what really matters in life. Now, I don't think that by any means I have mastered the knowlegde of everything that really matters and everything that doesn't, but I have figured out mostly the type of issues that I would like to worry about and try to change. To me the quote ignorance is bliss is a very sarcastic, therefore I agree with it. You could live your life with no knowlegde of the important issues that society has, and be happy - everything is fine the way it is, nothing needs to change, besides the fact that I don't have the car and the clothes that I want...etc. Or you might be blessed with some kind of experience to take you out of your little world, letting you know that your issues that you think matter actually do not. What really matters is all the terrible atrosities that happen in the world and how we need to live to change it. I guess that ignorance could only be bliss because if you don't know something, it can't hurt you. That's true, but that is when you have to control your emotions, and not let something hurt you. If the quote was not being sarcastic, it might go something like, "ignorance is jail."