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Wanna again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. Guys, beautiful day. Get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, or bottle of water. Let's see what's happening.

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Spring wheat $6.16 a bushel. 550lb steer calf $5 to $5.10 on the top end. A 100lb fat lamb in Billings at $2.90 a pound. But, guys, there's more, much more.

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Okay. Okay. You gotta hear the story I read online. I loved it. Where do people come up with these ideas? You know, guys, we live in a world like no other generation. We can find just about any subject covered online.

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Sit back children and hear their story. Most people asked, would say they don't wanna be ignorant. Oh, no. We wanna know. We want the facts, the figures, the news, the updates.

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We'll check our phones 1st thing in the morning, scroll through our feeds, refresh our notifications, peek at the world through the little glowing rectangles in our hands, Knowledge, we think, is power. Knowledge, we believe, is safety. Knowledge, we tell ourselves, is everything. But sometimes knowledge can be a cruel companion. Sometimes the very thing we crave turns against us.

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You see, just yesterday, someone posted a picture, a simple picture really, but it hit like a sledgehammer. Carol, the woman you always thought was just a nice neighbor, was awarded mother of the year by her daughter's entire senior class. And you pause. You you you you tried to smile. You congratulated her in your head, but your own heart felt a little tight.

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And then there was Bambi. Yes. Bambi who seems to float through life on effortless charm and charm alone, she had done it again, won the county beauty pageant again. You can't click through the photos watching her smile, flawless and gleaming, while you remembered your own failed attempts at makeup, hair, or, well, just being seen.

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And April. Oh, April. You almost didn't open the video. You didn't want to. You didn't wanna know. But you did. She was making $10,000 a year on YouTube. $10,000 a year just talking, just for showing her life, just for existing in front of a camera.

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And suddenly, your own late nights, your own hard work, your own struggles, well, they felt rather small. That's the trap of knowledge. It whispers lies when it should offer truth. It tells you that your life is inadequate. Your achievements minor. Your joy is unworthy. And your head, clever as it is, starts playing cruel games. Why not you?

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It asks. Why didn't life reward you like it rewarded them? And in that moment, you realize that knowledge is not always a blessing it promises to be. Sometimes, it's a burden, a heartache, a weight, a mirror that reflects not your life but your insecurities. And that's where ignorance sneaks in quietly, almost unnoticed, and offers a blessing.

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Ignorance doesn't shame you. Ignorance doesn't compare. Ignorance doesn't whisper that someone else has done better, earned more, smiled brighter. Ignorance is bliss. Ignorance lets you wake up in the morning and see the world as it really is rather than through the lens of envy, judgment, or inadequacy.

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Truly, ignorance is bliss, not because being uninformed is noble, but because sometimes not knowing is freedom. It is freedom to walk through a day without the poison of comparison, to sit with your family without the shadow of what if, to enjoy your coffee without wondering why someone else's life looks sweeter, richer, or more glamorous. And here's another truth that people often miss. Knowledge is a tool. It can build you up or it can break you down.

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It can guide you or it can chain you to the endless parade of other people's successes. Social media for all its connections is a hall of mirrors, A hall of mirrors where everyone else's reflection looks perfect, except it isn't. And sometimes stepping back from the mirror, into the quiet of ignorance allows you to see your own reflection as it should be, real, human, and enough. So, yes, most of us don't desire ignorance. We fight it.

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We resist it. We reach for knowledge as if it were a shield. But ever so often, life whispers a reminder. There is a grace in not knowing some things. There is a peace in not comparing. There is a freedom in letting the world's highlight reels past without judgment, without envy, without the quiet ache of I am not enough.

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And the real blessing, that life, even ordinary, even flawed, even painfully slow is still beautiful. That your own victories, small as they may seem, are still yours. That your quiet joys, your daily acts of kindness, your laughter, and love are treasures that social media cannot measure.

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And in that moment, when you put down your phone, turn off your notifications, and breathe, you realize that ignorance, far from being a curse, is sometimes the sweetest blessing of all. Thy end, something I found online.

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What about that then? Bible verse and I'll go. Proverbs fourteen thirty, a sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones. Proverbs 14:30

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So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.