Blog Entry 6: Review Socrates

    In the article, "The Allegory of the Cave" the author describes a group of people who have been chain in a cave most of their life and there is a fire behind them. They can not turn around their heads, they can only see before. Therefore, the only thing they can see is the shadow. They do not know the real, all they believe is the thing in cave. They do not know any reality. If they get out of the cave and see all the reality they will not think that is truth, but when they understands the reality they will realize that the thing what they saw before is no the real truth. In this situation most of the people may not want to believe the truth and want to go back to the cave. Only few of them want to see more reality. I think that people should not always think what they believed is the real truth.
    In my live, when I was young I really believed Santa Claus. I believed that Santa Claus will come to my house and give me present on Christmas Day. My teacher and my parents told me that if I am good Santa Claus will give me the present that I want, but if I am bad he will not give me any present. Therefore, every Christmas Day I wrote a letter to Santa Claus and asked my parents to send it to him. I also wrote a note to thank for the present and hanged it on the Christmas Tree. Every Christmas Eve I could not sleep well because of the present. Every time, when I saw my present in the morning I really thought Santa Claus did come to my house last night.

    One year, before the Christmas Day I did the same thing that I used to do. I wrote a letter and asked my parents to send it to Santa Claus, wrote a thank note and even put some cookies on the table. On Christmas Eve I was really excited that I did not sleep all night. In the early morning, I woke up and went to the Christmas Tree but I did not see any thing there I was so sad and I thought is because I was not so good that year. I want back to my room. Later on, I heard the conversation from my parents, my mother asked my father if he put the present under the tree but my father answered that he did not put that yet. I heard all their conversation and then fell asleep. When I woke up and saw my present I did not want to believe what I heard in the morning. Next day I asked some of my friends and all of them said that the conversation that I heard is the real truth. There is no Santa Claus and they never saw Santa Claus before. That time I was really shock of that. I could not image that what I really believed is not the truth.

    I advise that people should get off the cave and face the reality. Staying in the same place only can make people foolish, and do not know anything about the world.