Curiosity

"DaVinci was an artist and a mathematician and an engineer. He knew everything! He did everything! I wish I was awesome. I wish I was DaVinci."

"You just have to be curious."

















I live in the land of Google and wifi. Any piece of information I want to know can be at my fingertips at a moments notice. I live in the land of opportunity. I can go to a university and choose to study absolutely anything I want. I live in a land of convenience. I can regulate the temperature, sound level, and brightness of my environment. I can cure myself of wet hair, hunger, exhaustion, and boredom at a moments notice. I can flip a switch, press a button, and turn a key to solve most of my life's problems. I don't need to know how modern technology works: it just does.

Has our culture lost its curiousity? With everything provided for us, and no reason to understand why, I've lost the need to know. In a world where you had to perform work to survive on a daily basis and not live in complete comfort daily, your thoughts for progress would be much more prevalent.

I want to be a DaVinci. I want the end without the means. I need to get outside of my plush and royal existence and live in a way that demands my curiosity.

1/23/11