Curiosity is Connection #CIC
If you’re a curious person, you’re probably like me. You see something written or a printed piece of text. You must read it. There is a message. You must ponder it. You must understand it. You must connect with it. Or connect it with other ideas.
If you meet someone new, you want to ask all kinds of questions. To hear their perspective. To plumb their depths. To understand them. To connect with them. Or connect them with others.
If you see a bird you’ve never noticed before, you try to identify it. Then you look up its call. You listen for it. You look up its geographic range, its migratory patterns to know where and when to listen. You connect with it. And you connect it to its surrounding world.
If you see a flower you’ve never noticed before, you try to identify it. Or you have one of those apps that does it for you (maybe a few of those kinds of apps). You linger on its Latin name. Thinking about another flower that has the same genus. They are family. Distant cousins. Connected through evolution. And noticed by our universal curiosity force called science. And connected to us all through similar means over vast distances of space-time.
In so doing, your curiosity leads you to see the connection that is everywhere, that is everything. If you are a curiosity seeker, you are a connection seeker. Which means you are a meaning seeker. That is the deepest you can go. Is that proof that curiosity is connection?