Curiosity is the methodology here, not just a subject. This domain explores what it means to follow a question without knowing where it leads. The intellectual disposition that treats not knowing as an invitation rather than a deficiency.
A thousand lives lived in one. The five year old with endless questions. The fifteen year old furious at injustice, pulling at the threads of a world that punishes people for speaking up. The twenty-two year old asking the stars what any of it means. The thirty year old who still cannot stop asking, and has stopped pretending she should. There is a particular kind of person who cannot stop at one domain, one discipline, one way of knowing. Not because they lack depth but because every genuine question opens three more. The generalist in a world obsessed with specialists. The joy of being fascinated by something simply because it is fascinating.
Curiosity is not a personality trait. It is a practice. A way of moving through the world that keeps it perpetually strange and therefore perpetually alive.
Essays here follow questions wherever they go. Some arrive somewhere. Some just keep going. Both are worth the journey.
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On Fascination
“They say they can’t see in the dark. I see a little more at night.” – written sometime around 2013. The fascination with the night sky, for me, has always been beyond ordinary. Whether it was crying as a toddler to sleep under the stars instead of in the comfort of my cosy room, asking…