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The unknown.
People often tend to say:''what you don't know, can't hurt you''. But I don't think I completely agree. Of course I agree in the case of someone keeping a secret. As long as it's a secret to you, it can't hurt you either. It only hurts once you find out about it. In that case I totally agree.
But imagine the case of when someone has to make a decision of which the choice has a lot of influence on your life or the way you will live your life in the future. If you're aware of the fact that that person has made their decision, you'd probably be dying to know what that decision is. Imagine you don't know their choice, imagine that decision is unknown to you. Wouldn't you want to know the person's choice? Wouldn't that hurt you? I mean.. Who doesn't get hurt when they're left unkown? Who doesn't hate being confronted with secrets? Who doesn't get hurt when they're left in the dark corner of not knowing the answer? The dark corner of not knowing the answer to the question that keeps on haunting your brains. When you're left in that dark corner, you're left with fear. A lot of fear. A fear to lose something precious or a fear to a possibly upcoming fight to overcome an obstacle. That fear is causing a lot of pain. So yes, when something is unknown, the chance that it causes pain is certainly there, which means that the saying isn't completely right. Because what you don't know in this case actually does hurt you. But except for just fear, 'the unknown' also leaves you with hope. Being left in the dark corner also helps you to have faith, to believe and to hope. Hope to get what you deserve or hope to overcome those obstacles. Having faith certainly isn't something bad. It actually helps you grow as an individual person, which makes you stronger and makes you immune for the pain the fear-side of the story causes. This way the hope-side of the story proves that the saying is right. 'The unknown' really can't hurt you.
So I still keep wondering.. Does, in the case of someone making a decision that could have an impact on your life, the saying ''what you don't know, can't hurt you'' make any sense? Or is it a matter of one side overruling the other, in which the 'winner' decides the amount of pain a person gets?
Is the saying right or does it depend on the person?
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