Curiosity, as any long term readers I may have (if any: it’s OK if you are not reading this) will know is one of my core values, along with persistence and the rejection of self pity.
As I think about it, the habit of curiosity really amounts to reframing virtually all experience away from “good” and “bad” and into “interesting”.
My own work at the moment consists in learning to surf experience openly, without trying to dictate the contents of my perception. I often don’t know what I’m going to say or do until I do it. I’m trying to deepen my perceptual field, and that involves touching recesses I don’t know much about.
All of us, we float up and down. The ten thousand things and the ten thousand people rise and fall without ceasing. We just lie about it. We don’t FEEL the up and the down. You can do this if you live in your head. It’s not hard.
But some part of is feeling abandoned when you do that. You are losing life.
Life is scary. It really is. Especially if you got the shit knocked out of you emotionally or physically or both when you were little, which a lot of us did.
But openness is the game. More life is the prize.