Curiosity actually has many meanings only one of which is inquisitiveness, the desire to learn. According to Webster’s Encyclopedia Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, curiosity indicates a certain strangeness or interesting quality as well as having fastidiousness or carefulness. A curiosity can be a rare or novel thing. And even more curious to note is the synonyms include words such as rarity, wonder, phenomenon and freak! These are all useful words for a Creationeer.
Inquisitiveness is at the core of a Creationeer’s being. The desire to go “where no man has gone before”, even if it is only in our heads, is a powerful motivator to explore all that is around us. Not only are we exploring but we are gathering data, observations, information and possibly opposing views just to synthesize and test what we are learning about a subject of interest. Where the differences come in to play is what we do with our gatherings.
Many subjects are explored just out of the desire to learn more i.e. curiosity. However, in the interest of being productive we usually have at least one line of learning that is targeted toward a goal or objective that surrounds the current work we are doing or a personal outcome we are achieving. Is the objective one of solution such as solving a puzzle, riddle or investigation? Or has a circumstance, event, person or object been so rare or novel that it is currently dominating our minds? At what point does inquisitiveness become obsessiveness and things get freaky? After all, as has been said: “Curiosity kills the cat.”
Thankfully, the cat has nine lives.