Blog 8

Does Knowledge Make You Happier?

As the author Cornell and Malcolmson's states in the film “The Matrix” Neon in this film the process of knowledge can experience positive and adverse aspects that affects him in different ways. On a positive way, we can experiment the feeling of happiness, joy, and feeling to explore something different we don’t know as Neo in the beginning of the film he was exited with the curiosity of knowledge and he does not mind the consequences because he wants to experiment how or what is the truth. In the negative sense, he can experience frustration, anger, depression and the feeling to stop all sensations of frustration because that is not good, as Neo during the learning process he wanted to get out because the feeling is so painful.

         Some times Knowledge can be good because Knowing the truth can be very rewarding and can give you much joy and happiness, but to achieve this happiness you have to go through many levels of learning that are not easy,  sometimes can be sacrificed but the end is very rewarding. Neo who wanted to have knowledge of the truth of this new life offered him by Morpheus he had to experiment a lot of physical pain to know that he was the chosen one to save humanity.

         For example, in the human process when women want to be mothers, we are happy to get this experience so in the way to accomplish this happiness you can experiment the feeling of pain during the waiting process, sometimes can be painful because complications can occur, but this does not prevent us from knowledge understanding and the wish to be mothers because in the end the joy of knowledge that the child was born is the most sublime feeling that fills us with satisfaction and happiness. Like Neo, he wants go into the process of knowledge for the truth and  no matter the process he has to go to rescue the humanity and live in the new world.

         Further more, during the process the knowledge you can feel the negative way like the decision is wrong because this true you don’t like or is not like you thing it will be, so you react in the negative way. This is because you feel that the process to get it is so difficult and you feel depressed, angry, sad, and you want to get out, like Neo when relies that this new life or the knowledge for the truth is based on robots, machines and the challenge to pass these obstacles is difficult.

         Another example, right now in the process of knowledge on how to write an essay, I am practicing many times but sometimes when I do not feel so confident and we have a quiz the result is not like I want. My immediate reaction is the feeling of frustration, sometimes anger and I want to quit but I know this is the process to succeed in this challenge to get better in writing. Also like Neo when he went back and rescue Morpheus, he feel frustrate and sad with the idea that Morpheus will die, after that he decide to rescue  and prepare to confront the enemy with guns and other things that help to accomplish the rescue.

         In conclusion the process of knowledge could be with obstacles that affect people with positive and negative feelings. Positive with good feelings and happiness, and negative with sadness and frustration so the best we can do is be prepared for knowledge of the truth.