CURIOSITY

Curiosity is something we humans are born with. It comes naturally to us. We are always curious about something. Whether it be one of life's questions, love, space, anything really. Curiosity allows us to learn new things, and with those new things come new innovative creations. The Wright Brothers, for example, invented the airplane. They were curious about the idea of flight from a young age. Because of their efforts, we have different Boeing aircraft models, jets, and new technology that keeps airplanes from colliding with one another. So many new things came to be because of their efforts. Our predecessors left us the blueprint. From a medical standpoint, there have been so many medical advancements that are more ethical than how things were in the 19th century. In the 19th century, doctors were doing unethical procedures like trepanation, when a doctor drills a hole in a person's skull, lobotomy, and lithotomy, a procedure used to remove kidney stones with a 50% mortality rate. So many procedures are now being practiced where people don't have to go through excruciating amounts of pain and possibly die because of unethical procedures. The point is, that being curious has helped us get to where we are today. It's something when you realize how different things were compared to how things are now. How normal things like lobotomies were back in the day and how there are safer ways to treat the body nowadays. 

It's pretty crazy to think that the world can be in a whole different place. Whether it's for the best or for the worst we don't know. I feel like in the near future, we won't even be on earth anymore. Like Stephen Hawking mentioned in the "The Preciousness of Time" video, "... in the next hundred years, we will embark on our greatest ever adventure. Our destiny is in the stars". The idea of leaving Earth, and colonizing a whole new planet almost feels like history repeating itself in a way. We've seen this before when England, Spain, France, and Portugal all embarked on journeys to colonize new land which they evidently achieved. Again, it feels weird seeing history repeating itself one way or another. It hasn't happened yet but it eventually will maybe not right now but sometime in the near future. Who knows where curiosity will lead us?