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I was a child who constantly asked "Why?"

Mostly, I asked myself.
I wasn't the annoying child who repeatedly, unthinkingly asked "why"
in order to drive my parents crazy. No. [b]I was just so curious about life, myself, others, relationships, reality. [/b]

When I was very young, I was curious about the microbial world. I wanted a high powered microscope so I could study this vast world. I thought about going into[b] medicine[/b], veterinary medicine and then I was enamored by investing my world so much that the TV detective programs, teen mystery "chapter" books and the advancing technology of detective "gadgets".

I seriously thought of becoming a [b]private investigator[/b]. I was that curious. I am STILL curious. I turn over every stone; that appears to be a real stone, covering a real issue. [b]Just because someone says "there's no there there", it tells me that there IS something to discover. [/b]

[b]Then my curiosity lead to creativity[/b]; I was singing and started [b]writing songs[/b], grown out of my writing of poems, short stories, etc. I still sing, write songs and play the Celtic harp (a little, humbly, I pick at it; play arpeggios, harmonies and lead lines) but I was and have always been fascinated in Science. In university, I chose a Bachelor of SCIENCE over a Vocal Performance Degree.

[b]I'm curious about what makes me and others "tick"[/b]. Why are humans so fascinating to me? Sometimes I feel that I am still putting things "under the glass" to get a closer look at what is really going on. [b]I am curious about things that matter,[/b] I hate small talk and believe that THINKING is vital. [c=#BF0080][b]It is not enough to ASK "WHY", it is to listen, gather information and THINK about what we learn.[/b][/c] Surprisingly, it may never lower my intensity toward curiosity; but that doesn't matter to me at all. It has never been my goal to "be curious", I just am.

When you ask a question and you get a response that is angry, confusing or even deflecting. YOU have found something. Secrets don't like to be found out. Watch. Listen. Stop asking and start thinking.
ABCDEF7 · M Best Comment
"It’s okay to ask questions, but get the answers. So, where are the answers? Since the questions came from within you, guess where the answers are? Within you". – Prem Rawat

"The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside." – Eckhart Tolle

"It's better to ask, then to believe" - ABCDEF7
SW-User
@ABCDEF7 oh wow! “Better to ask than to believe”

I love this
@ABCDEF7 Insightful comment. Nice quote.
I too believe that
[b]"It's better to ask, then to believe" [/b]- ABCDEF7
ABCDEF7 · M
Thanks @MsAlaineEYes and @SW-User for appreciating my views.

We start believing what we don't know in reality and don't wish to know. We need not to believe the things which we know by the way of our perception, mind and consciousness because we simply know it. So I think that knowing is better than believing.

Accepting that "I do not know" is an immense possibility of knowing things. When you start believing, you kill that possibility.

But isn't the "old wives tale" of "curiosity killed the cat", really a deterrent to think for ourselves? Who wants to really kill their cat??? Curiosity causes a RISK. A risk of discovering and revealing SECRETS that some do not want discovered or revealed. Maybe the cat wasn't killed by curiosity, but "silenced" 🕵️‍♀️ because he knew too much. 🤐 Thanks for provoking me to think about this "innocent" idiom; I don't think its so innocent now. That is one reason why being curious is not about asking questions; as they say, asking questions can get you killed...but watching, listening and thinking. Those are things that are undetectable in your investigations that will help all the pieces of evidence form a picture of what is really happening. You know, like in this world the past year. So much evidence that people do not as "why". There are times like these, when not asking ourselves "why" can lead to our own demise. Thanks for replying...Ms A
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It’s the biggest value I see in another human being. Their uniqueness.@MsAlaineEYes
@SW-User Sometimes, it may be the only thing of value that some are able or willing to share with us...then you have to wonder if it is a wall to keep others away...you know, like GOTH??? I saw one couple. Immaculately dressed GOTH. I saw it as a CRY for attention. I really don't like the black lipstick and nails, creepy to me...

I love to discover "diamonds in the rough", the sweet, quiet and unassuming persons who contribute to a conversation with deep insight and passion. Or the "clown", like my first hubby, always entertaining others.
SW-User
@MsAlaineEYes I remember the “emo” phase, I used to see that as like a “stay away from me” kind of a glum vibe.

Those diamonds in the rough are very rare gems. Small talk is a starting point but when you catch interest the curiosity for the deep insight comes about.
And heck as for the clown thing. We can’t take life seriously all the time, enjoy the ride, no one gets out alive lol.
Sharon · F
[i]I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.[/i]

(Rudyard Kipling)
SW-User
I was that child too. Curiosity kills the cat but the answer brings it home.
Sharon · F
@SW-User What did the cat want to know?
@quitwhendone How so? Tell us. We are curious...😜😳🤭😂🥰😉
@MsAlaineEYes Everything you said, except for writing songs.
FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, F
I have often said I was born insatiably curious. I can identify.
Asking questions is how we learn

 
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