What if the purpose in life is to be curious
When I was a kid, I used to be too curious. While at my friends’ place I would open their closet drawers to see what was inside. Their parents didn’t mind, but mine did. I believe curiosity had a negative connotation with my parents, and more often than not I tried to repress it and hide it away.
Curiosity — asking questions — isn’t just a way of understanding the world. It’s a way of changing it. “Brian Grazer”
Luckily, something changed. I don’t remember when or how, but I realized curiosity had guided my life ever since. Curiosity is what brought me to have a creative life, and I use it at work and in all my passion projects. It’s curiosity the reason why I devour book after book and am never satisfied until I read the next one on a never-ending list.
Somewhere I read 75% of Americans hate their job.
4 out of 5 people do not like what they do. In 2019, that number should be lower. Also, I think curiosity can change that.
How? Well, let’s start from Nature.
The purpose in natural life is to grow.
Plants grow, animals grow, we grow. You can’t just not-grow, not get old, it’s impossible. Physically, we’re here to grow.
In the same way, I think the purpose of our existence should be to grow, to explore, to become more, either professionally or personally. To improve mentally, by doing the things we’re interested in. We watch and read about the things we’re curious about.
You can work and live a life full of purpose if you get to do the things you’re curious about.
Being curious about things is to live.
Being curious about things is to grow.
Being curious is the way to success.
Being curious can — and should- be your purpose in life.
I guess I proved my parents wrong.
Curiosity is not that negative after all.
