I sometimes wonder if I have any interests. Because I have so little in common with anyone at work. Not that I've ever had much in common with most of the people around me. Which does act as a strong filter.
Because I'm rather interested in everything, some in the negatives I grant you. I am interested in the controversies around professional team sports, and the harm done to colleges when they idolize male team athletics, TBIs and abuses. This does not go over well with the unthinking sports fans cheering their team, so I say nothing.
History and linguistics, etymologies, crosswords, art of all sorts, music from everywhere except pop manufactured to sell, dance, costume. Gardens, all the bugges and chemistry of it all. Science of all sorts, medical and otherwise.
Nothing really that I DON'T find interesting, to the positive or negative. I think about it all, which is part of what makes it difficult to talk about with fans who adore for shallow and unthinking reasons. Why upset them when I can't really get into why? Or challenge them when I have nothing else to offer? Who am I to tell them they are wrong or foolish, which would certainly be the message they would take, and perhaps that I have? To say it would be unkind. One cannot imbue another with curiosity.
So I must stay open myself. Not that I can stop wondering, it's not in me.
5 comments:
Wonder. It's what makes us us.
I know in my bones that we are all born curious. It is sad that so many seem to lose that curiosity. I wonder why it happens.
Douglas Adams puts his finger on the problem!
being open and thinking is the best way, the healthiest way
Gentle,
I wonder if that's where I got this idea this week, because I know I read it. And it was a new DA quote to me.
Cat,
It does seem to scare some people, who never want to be wrong. I'm wrong a lot, it just means I have something new to learn.
Deanna,
Dunno, but the idea that we don't know it all, that failure and ignorance are bad and must never be admitted to, may be at the heart of it. Instead of accepting that we cannot know everything, but it's fun to try, is undervalued in our culture.
gz,
My highest compliment to anyone is that they are teachable.
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