'Curiosity killed the cat', is what we've always known and been told.

Have you have ever wondered what language someone who has been deaf their whole life  would think in? 

But have you ever wondered what a someone who has been blind their whole life sees in their mind? 

Or where your dreams really come from? 

Have you have ever wondered about the origin of time? Or how it began?

But we just don’t know.

No one knows... For now. 

No one knows when time began and no one knows when time will end. That’s the thing. Humans come with a limited certainty or should I put it, a limited capacity. We don’t know it all and frankly, I think we can never know it all. This isn’t my dormant pessimism waking up to speak. It’s just one of those things. But it’s great. Seriously, we shouldn’t think of it as a sad thing. In fact it is amazing. And do you want to know why?

As humans, we thrive on this need for infinite knowledge, for infinite wisdom and infinite understanding. It’s this thing we are born with, and we call it curiosity. We just always want to figure things out. One of the first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. Curiosity gives us limitless boundless possibilities. It gives languages, it gives us music, it gives us art, it gives us science. And no one seems to realise or credit the power of human curiosity. 

Curiosity acts as a driving force behind discovery and invention. 

Our own curiosity has started the discovery of everything that we know to be. What would the world be if no one had wondered what they could use fire to do? 

Or what would our generation be if Thomas Edison had not been curious enough to create electric light. 

But do you know what happens when that curiosity starts to fade away? In fear of staying safe or with the misconception that we know enough already?

We stop questioning and when we stop questioning, we stop discovering.

Albert Einstein said 'Curiosity is more important than knowledge,' therefore without curiosity, we stop knowing.

Aristotle, Plato, Descartes, Confucius, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Alexander Graham Bell, Marie Curie, Alexander Flemming, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

What do all these people have in common? The great contributions they have made to our lives through simple curiosity.

It makes me think. Did curiosity really kill the cat? 

Or did curiosity keep the cat alive?

Sade Williams, Coloma Convent School