Ever felt like you don't enquire enough? Have you ever just taken a deep breath and letting it all out, perhaps whilst sitting on the balcony of your home, glazing into the bright blue sky and letting Miss Imagination loose (whose job is to turn the clouds into really cool images), not caring for the cool breeze that's all up in your face, and for once just admire the birds, trees, critters, sun, dirt rocks and finally admit to yourself that you know so darn little about them?
I was in a similar situation yesterday morning. Here at campus, there are a few mango trees planted by the wayside. They give us shade and fresh air on both busy and free days. I sat on one of the few cement and stone benches under the trees and quickly become bored. Time would've seemed to go by a lot faster if only I had my phone with me. It was dead so I didn't bring it to school with me. The worst past was that I had to sit there for a few hours. After a long while of just sitting there and playing with a mango that I Had picked up a while before, an agama lizard popped out of nowhere and rested at the base of the tree.
Source couldn't find a free picture of an agama 😅
The first time thought that latched on to my mind like a leech on fresh skin was to find something quickly and throw at it. Before I could raise my head up again, it had moved far away from me, taunting me with its signature head nod. It was then a rather strange question clicked in my head: "why is its head red?"
Like a herald that announces the return of an army from war, that one thought ushered in a whole lot more questions regarding manu things around me; why does the wind blow? how is the sun fixed in space? what are the rocks made of? how do birds fly? why do we have language? why do I cry when I'm sad? why is this mango even tasty? The remaining one and a half hour I sat there didn't seem as long as the preceding hours. I realized that there were so many unanswered questions out there, that there was so much around that mango tree that I just didn't know about, talk less of our planet or the universe.
It made me sad. I believe the cherry on top, the bane of the awful situation, the part I still haven't gotten over, and maybe may never get over is that I'm not searching for these answers.
You'd think that in an age where we're able to get the answers to so much of all the questions that we could ever think of in so little time, the majority of the human population would be much more enlightened on the natural world around it. So why then aren't we? Why do we just look at and around ourselves and feel like we don't need explanations to these questions? Are we too comfortable not knowing the 'whys' and 'hows'? Have we been so conditioned to the environment and the non-inquisitive culture around us that all the knowledge seems ultimately pointless? The answers that have been figured out and documented safely on the internet waste away. Of course, what's my business with the nature of the very dirt I step on when TikTok is there to be my 'business' all day long?
Maybe it is time to get back to being like a little kid. I asked a whole lot of questions back then when I didn't even have access to phones. Would I possibly be able to start searching for these answers? Truth be told, I don't know. I can't promise myself that because I know how difficult it is. But one thing I do know, and it's that it's only when I start questioning that I would have something to find an answer to.
So anytime you're looking for me, I'm probably under the mango tree.
all unsourced images were edited on Canva
Damn your imagination is quite vast. Exactly how do you come up with this stuff?😅🤔
I would love to be your friend. Sounds weird I know. But I love the way you think and relay your thoughts.
I'm an inquisitive person too. Growing up I would disturb all the adults around me with questions. I wanted to know the most bizarre things. A memory I would never forget, that made me realise that maybe I should tone down my questions a little bit was in primary 4.
I can't exactly remember the topic that was been taught or how it linked to what happened next but I remember going head to head with my teacher and asking back to back questions. Then he said something, in my bid to counter his point I mentioned that my mum and dad had a fight the night before and their voices were very loud.
Both my teacher and the one in the next class heard me and took me outside.😅😅
They couldn't even figure out what exactly to tell me. They just said I should sit down and keep quiet.
Funny enough I only figured out that what I did was wrong years after, when I randomly remembered it😄.
Anyways, this was an amazing article. I don't think all your questions can be answered but I do hope you find answers to some of them. Stay safe.
Mahhn. I can only imagine the looks on your teachers' faces 😅💔. I bet we could both go back to being really inquisitive without necessarily prompting people to silence us because of overdo. Hehe. I'm really glad you liked the post. Thanks so much ❤️🤩✨
Wow... Guyy
I really love your intro to this post.... The cloud and imagination stuff
You are really good in writing
Our parents really suffered then... Someone like me will ask both relevant and irrelevant ones but come to think of it... There's every information I get from all of them.
Thanks for sharing this... You won't get answers if you don't ask, hence, to know, we have to ask just that this time around, we do the asking ourselves and we still do the answering ourselves through our search via phones
'Suffer' might just be an understatement 😂💔. They were really strong. I feel that inquisitiveness is much still needed this time around we have the answers at our fingertips. I hope we get more inquisitive. Thanks so much for engaging ❤️✨
You are welcome man
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I think one of the reasons we aren’t asking these questions much anymore is largely because of the school system itself and how utterly unnatural it is. I’m glad you brought up being a kid because kids are naturally inquisitive because they haven’t been corrupted much yet by the school system and their terrible methodology for teaching. It extinguishes the natural desire to question when you are told what you need to know and going outside of those bounds is largely not possible because it’s “not in the curriculum” they have to force to you by the time you graduate. As we get older it bears down on us more until we usually largely stop.
Hopefully you can un-learn those unnatural ways from school and regain your curiosity! That’s actually a big movement in modern times called unschooling!
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