Far-reaching Curiosity

 

My son gets annoyed when confronted with the question of what lies ahead. At 42 years my goals are still unclear. I have been writing blogs for 75 days now and sometimes I ask myself and a few of my close friends, to what end?  

As an adult, this is one thing that gets me intrigued? All through my life, I have felt that constant battle in mind, my purpose? What am I doing here? What is my purpose in life? Why do I do what I do? Why does anyone do what they do? What makes some choices better?

I love seeing people ask questions. The more enlightened the group, the more questions they ask. Mario Livio in his talk about curiosity compared the graph of knowledge as some kind of inverted bell. The less you know the less is the curiosity which grows with the knowledge level and when you have acquired all the knowledge there is, the hunger for knowledge decreases.

There is another aspect to lack of curiosity that I think leads to decreasing trends. I think the same can be attributed to exasperation. Somewhere along this knowledge curve, we tend to get bored or just bogged down by day to day necessities to go out searching for livelihood or in preparation for it.

Another reason why people stopped asking questions because they felt not many people will have answers to it or will judge them for it. But technology has surprised us. People have not stopped being curious. They have just channelized it elsewhere. Quora, Brainly, Google, everything website is a working proof of dealing with curiosities. When I searched for ‘website to ask questions anonymously’, it came back with a list of 13 websites. Answering questions is tantamount to helping people these days especially when its accessible to all.

I am not discussing the dangers attached to having all questions answered because I strongly believe that they open a plentitude of opportunities and not all of them offer positive growth. Some of them offer misinformation and are dangerous. Having this said, I am still hopeful that the capacity of people to reach out should only be harnessed rather than stopped. People need answers and we live in a world now where it is possible to get them.

Let us give our children and even ourselves opportunity to look for answers. Do not settle till you find one which will help you create a win-win situation.