10.16.23 // To Have Curiosity

Curiosity is not *necessarily* the easy path forward.
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To have curiosity means you put questions, genuine interest, and love above judgment, opinions, and assumptions.
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Curiosity begs that you put yourself and your perspective aside, and it asks that you open your mind and often your heart to see, hear, and feel the world through an endless amount of lenses.
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Curiosity comes at the cost of being uncomfortable. It asks that you challenge yourself and wake up from the familiarity of expectations. It asks that you see your silent judgments or reactive opinions as opportunities to grow not patterns to fall into or resentments to build.
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Curiosity means never truly having the answer and always wondering if there is another answer, another way to get there. It is living in a world classroom illuminating you with education and building a mind that is unwilling to stop learning.
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Curiosity means thinking, pondering, and philosophizing about whatever pulls you close. It is living wide awake in a world that lets labels lull you to sleep. It is experiencing life as if it were not so simple or so complicated to live. It is finding comfort in the unknown, and finding exhilaration in the constant pursuit of making the world known only to make it unknown again.