This post is part of a series on 12 Words. Curiosity is my word for January.
How do I start to explore the word for the month?
A logical place to start seems to be the dictionary.
The first dictionary definition of Curious that I came across surprised me, in its negative connotation: “Interested in what is not one’s own business.” That was enough to make me give up dictionaries as a starting place in this process.
Curiosity has always been a very positive concept for me.
There we other definitions of course, but I realized that what matters with the 12 Words is that I cultivate my own understanding of the word, and what it means to “be” that energy in the world.
So I thanked the dictionary and went on my way, committed to discovering my own personal meaning and value of Curiosity.
For me, Curiosity is opening myself to wonder. It is an invitation to clear decks and look at something in a completely new way.
It’s also with a positive expectation that I look at something with Curiosity. I’m expecting to find something surprising and wonderful.
Curiosity is about being alive and awake, so there’s a vitality about it, a new-ness of life.
But most of all it is about presence: attention and eager anticipation. It is welcoming of life.
What is Curiosity for you?
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