When people “fall in love” is it not in large measure because of curiosity about, interest in, the other person? And when curiosity is gone, when all that was unknown is now known, do they not fall out of love? Could we not call some romantic flings “curiosity induced relationships”?
Are people who are “intriguing” not so because they inspire curiosity, which is to say open engagement?
By its nature, curiosity is about change, isn’t it? By its nature, it is searching out the new, it is seeking discoveries. It is the opposite of complacency. It is going “out there”, and never content with staying “in here”, with “this”.
And is USEFUL love not a true curiosity about another human being, a desire to learn about them, to get to truly know them, to connect with them?
Could we not say that endless curiosity leads in short order to endless love? I think so. The more I “think”–this is not quite the right word for what I do–about it, the more I think they are flip sides of the same coin, and worth considering as such.