Let the questions be
Curiosity is the basis of asking questions and the reason one set on the quest for answers. It burns like a flame and ignites the inner thirst. We all experience it. The question lies in the ways we use to extinguish it. We have been encouraged to think out of the box from childhood but to question within the box. So the curiosity pops up in our mind but is hardly allowed to flow out. We see the world differently when we are a child and when we grow up, thus transforming our curiosity. In childhood, the flow of water, bending of the spoon in a glass of water, lighting up of bulb from lemon intrigues us. The world seems full of inventions, innovations, and magic, and I was no exception.
On seeing the heart’s anatomy for the first time, my brain took some time to register its shape and work. And then, on studying the structure of the brain, my curiosity knew no bounds. Every aspect of our existence seemed to enthrall me. On learning about the reason for seasons and the tilt the earth has, I realized we all need to be off the orbit to give way to different seasons. If this tilt is missing, we might end up in monotonic life. And then came the rainbow. Being lucky enough to witness it with bare eyes, I was happy to know that rainbow sums up in itself seven colors. They are called VIBGYOR. The magic they create by blending in is a lesson in itself.
But then came the so-called busy life schedule. In this schedule, you are highly trained in thinking in one direction only, and curiosity slowly and steadily gets replaced by asking subject-oriented questions only. The working of heart, alertness of mind, power of reflex action, and sunsets’ beauty are limited to our books. Asking ‘unnecessary’ questions is termed equal to questioning our intellect. Things that intrigue one are only addressed if they are somehow related to the field one is pursuing.
Making efforts to know about things beyond one’s ambit of ‘concern’ is considered a wastage of time. But once we start questioning beyond our prescribed syllabi, we meet an ocean of knowledge that hardly cares about our background. It unleashes the ways to ask everything and to get the answers as well. The power of seeing beyond the canvas, put in front of us, seems challenging, but we need to look beyond it to appreciate the natural beauty the lies beyond it.
We all succumb to the pressure placed on us to excel in our fields. One should aim for that, but we should not give up on other forms of learning in the process. We live in a dynamic world, the decision-makers of the same should be open to dynamism.
The question lies in the ways we use to extinguish it. We have been encouraged to think out of the box from childhood but to question within the box.
