Blog 1: The Cave and I

   In an excerpt from “The Republic” title Plato I read that there was a time when prisoner used to be sent to spend their entire lives in a cave. In this cave they couldn’t see anything else but their own shadows and the shadows of the people crossing by a path inside the cave. They only had an idea of what was it like outside the cave but they didn’t know anything else for example, what were those shadows crossing by or how everything looked like outside the cave.  If one of the prisoners was lucky enough to be taken out from the cave and see the reality of the real world outside the cave he would be amazed of what he saw with his own eyes. They used to find it so much better than what they imagined it to be like. This prisoner would be so happy and amazed that he would try to go through the path inside the cave and try to shout to the other prisoners of how great everything looks out side that dark and lonely cave they have spent most of their lives in, but the others prisoners would only hear shouts and not understand what he was trying to explain to them.  They would pretty much ignore this prisoner and keep on living with the image that they believe in.   

   This excerpt titled “Plato” brought me to the conclusion of thinking that in life people a lot of times try to ignore the truth of something that’s going on in their lives, or the truth about something that they believe in and only go with what they believe in and nobody can change their point of view. They will only believe in what they believe and if somebody tries to change their mind they will ignore that person because to them that person is wrong. People that are like this reminded me of the prisoners who live in this dark cave believing in something they might be wrong about. If only people like this could listen to other people and take their advice that’s the only way they can stop living in that cave and come out to the lightened world.

     I believe that is better to live facing the blinding truth and getting scorned and rejected by other people in society than to live in the cave ignorant of the truth but safe in the comfort of the illusion. First of all I believe this because it’s not good to live blinded and believing in something that is not true because you know deep inside that you’re wrong and you don’t want to be rejected by society. I want to live knowing the real truth and not living a lie because I want to face reality and not in a wonderland that is not even real.