Curiosity Is Key

12 - 16 - 2024

It seems to me curiosity is one of the most important things you can have. And if someone doesn’t have it it instantly limits them until they choose to have it.

Think about it. Think of all the people you can’t reach. They’re closed off. They won’t consider what you have to say. Facts to them don’t matter. You cannot reason with them. They’re not interested in truth. They will not consider it.

They are not curious.

There is an emotional component to this for sure. There are many ingredients in this gumbo, many factors. But don’t mistake explaining that something being “complex” for absolving a person’s ignorance, negligence, and abuse.

Many people choose to remain rigid, not emotionally elastic. In part because not knowing the truth is comfortable. “Ignorance is bliss.” This is why many people you can point to who are choosing cruelty have a worldview which is too simplistic - to their and everybody else’s detriment. Mythology and lies are emotionally important to people who will not be curious. They choose to keep their head buried there. It’s comfortable. It is seductive to stay inconsiderate when what you have been told is that you are the hero, this is the way this country and the world works (for you!).

Take emotional rigidity. When we are rigid, inconsiderate, unwilling to be curious, cruel!…that is the opposite of strong. What in nature could you describe as “strong” which does not adapt, evolve, flex, bend? It’s the same for people.

Curiosity is like a skeleton key which when turned can begin to unlock every door, every problem we have. If you’re reading this and it resonates with you or someone you know - I want to impart upon you that it is to your detriment if and when you find being critiqued intolerable. Ask yourself in what ways, which subjects, do you react to strongly when someone objects to you or what you already believe to be true?

I love thinking about these things. I have been on every side of them and live my life in such a way to always have an “emotional sonar” up to keep scanning for what ways my thinking keeps me back. How am I adding unnecessary suffering to myself and others? I take this lesson and this medicine the same as you do. It’s important for all of us to remain open and accepting of when we discover things about ourselves that are undesirable. Those things which bring up uncomfortable and sometimes fierce, flash reactions. I’m sending love to me and to YOU - wherever you are when you read this. We are having a human experience. It’s messy AND it’s beautiful. I wish for you and me love in these tough places. Courage to you and us all when we turn into the storm knowing it will not be comfortable and we are afraid of it - because we know that is where we become better. Wiser. Stronger. Better vision, clarity, and perspective.