Curiosity

What is curiosity? Does it simply mean you are interested in something? or does it touch deeper than that? This post was generated from a memory awhile back. Funny what our minds choose to remember.


This took place a summer 2 or 3 years ago, although i remember it like it was yesterday.

I was at my sister's summer league softball game, and to anyone who's ever been to one, it usually consists of a few events. Of course there is the softball game that attracts the the parents who usually bring along their kids. With the kids around it usually mean they're running around play wallball or some other made up game that we all loved at one point or another.

Anyways, it was after the game was over and i was waiting for my sister and mom to get through conversing with the other parents/team mates when i noticed this little kid out of the corner of my eye. He's wasn't running around with the rest of the kids, in fact, h wasn't doing anything at all.

He was just standing there, staring at me. I looked around, wondering where his parents where. Noone was in sight. That's when I looked into his eyes. You could see it, he was in deep thought. What was this that stood before him? I was foreign to him. He comes up and starts playing with my tires. Testing them out, seeing how they work. He proceeds to touch my gloves tryin to figure out what they are. He looks up at me and there it was again. That look in his eye. Curiosity. "Tyler! Get away from there, thats not nice." The lady proceeds to apologize and scold the kid as she walks away with a death grip on his arm.

I think the lady was wrong for this. The boy was curious. curiosity is what makes the world go round. Without curiosity where would we be? We would still be cave people sitting around, scratching our asses wondering what everything was and how it worked. If I could go back to that day and stop that lady. it might of made a huge difference it the kids life. Now he'll probably be scared of ever confronting anyone thats different or having an open mind to new things in general.

The Point-

Curiosity is the wonder that bestows in our minds. We wonder about things that are unknown and foreign to us and its OK to be curious about things we don't know. Just because we were taught to shy away from things that were out of the average when we were younger doesn't mean we have to go our whole lives living in unknown. Let curiosity lead your mind and you'll be amazed at the things you learn.  Well i guess it adios untill next time, and remember be CURIOUS!