i recently read "Oedipus the King" for the first time in my life. believe it or not, i never read any dramatic plays in high school. although i admit to not being a Shakespeare fan (what the hell is he saying?), i do enjoy the drama genre in literature. we're all familiar with Freud's "oedipus complex" and that was all i really knew about Oedipus - he killed his father and married his mom. what i didn't know was the tragedy surrounding the events that led to his sovereignty and sadly, his eventual fall. for those who are familiar with Oedipus's plight, you know that he did not intentionally kill his father and marry his mother but instead, was a victim to fate and predestined by the gods. a very tragic story indeed.
while i read the play i couldn't help but admire Oedipus for his fight to know the truth, even though it broke his heart at the end. it got me to thinking, how many of us really are comfortable with the truth and will fight for it? there are many unspoken truths whether it be between husband and wife, friends, parents and their children, and within ourselves. it made me wonder about all the geniuses in our lifetime who strived for the truth and led unhappy lives because of what they discovered. i bring this up because i'm beginning to slowly find out the truth about myself, but there are some things i'd rather not come to terms with. in the same respect, there are certain things i'd rather not hear from my family, zac, or my friends because i don't know if i'd be able to bear it. does it make a person weak when he or she cannot accept the truth about themselves, or the ones they love?
it's kind of a corny way to go out but it reminds me of a song by Mario Winans "I Don't Want to Know". it's about a guy who knows his girl is cheating on him but chooses not to acknowledge it. here is the chorus:
"I don't want to know,
if you're playing me, keep it on the low
'cause my heart can't take it anymore.
and if you're creepin',
please don't let it show
oooh baby, i don't wanna know"
i think it has deeper meaning than we give it credit for.
1 comment:
hahahaha girl the mario song at the end cracked me up LOL!! I think learning something about yourself you never knew before esp when it's not a good thing is hard to accept at first. But once we have the courage to accept it, I believe there's power in it. Acknowledging and changing oneself to be the best they can be is better than denying it and never acknowledging it. In the past 2 yrs, I definitely learned a lot about myself. A lot of my flaws I wasn't aware of and how much my character changed, but I'm glad I did because I'm trying my best to change those things & have changed to be a better me.
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